Environment
Demography
&
Disease
Migration
Patterns
of
settlement
Technology
#2Development
&
Interaction
of
Cultures
Religions
Belief
systems,
philosophies,
and
ideologies
Science
and
technology
The
arts
and
Architecture
#3State
Building,
Expansion,
&
Conflict
Political
Structures
and
forms
of
Governance
Empires
Nations
and
Nationalism
Revolts
and
Revolutions
Regional,
transregional,
and
global
structures
and
organizations
#4Creation,
Expansion
&
Interaction
of
Economic
Systems
Agricultural
&
pastoral
production
Trade
and
commerce
Labor
systems
Industrialization
Capitalism
&
Socialism
#5Development
&
Transformation
of
Social
Structures
Gender
roles
and
relations
Family
and
kinship
Racial
and
ethnic
constructions
Social
and
economic
classes
How
the
environment
shaped
human
societies
1. Prehistoryhumans
interacted
with
the
environment
as
hunters,
fishers
and
foragers,
and
human
migrations
led
to
the
peopling
of
the
earth.
2. Environmental
factors
such
as
rainfall
patterns,
climate,
and
available
flora
and
fauna
shaped
the
methods
of
exploitation
used
in
different
regions
B)
How
human
societies
also
affected
the
environment
1. Neolithic
revolutionhumans
exploited
their
environments
more
intensively,
either
as
farmers
or
pastoralists
2. Human
exploitation
of
the
environment
intensified
as
populations
grew
and
as
people
migrated
into
new
regions.
3. Growth
of
population
and
citiesemergence
and
spread
of
new
disease
4. Industrial
Revolutionenvironmental
exploitation
increased
exponentially.
5. Modernityincreased
manipulation
and
exploitation
of
environment
(more
sophisticated
technologies,
the
exploitation
of
new
energy
sources
and
a
rapid
increase
in
human
populations)
6. 20th
centuryemergence
of
the
green
to
protect
and
work
with
natural
world
instead
of
exploiting
it
A) Development
of
culture
1. Origins,
uses,
dissemination,
and
adaptation
of
ideas,
beliefs,
and
knowledge
within
and
between
societies.
2. Dominant
belief
system(s)
or
religions,
philosophical
interests,
and
technical
and
artistic
approaches
B) Interaction
of
Cultures
1. Shared
components
of
cultures,
deliberately
or
not.
2. Cultural
blendingadopting
or
adapting
new
belief
and
knowledge
systems
3. Comparisonwhat
is
unique
to
a
culture
and
what
is
shared
with
other
cultures.
4. Analyze
and
trace
particular
cultural
trends
or
ideas
across
human
societies
A) Hierarchal
systems
of
rule
1. Construction
and
maintenance
of
2. Conflicts
generated
through
those
processes.
B) Compare
various
forms
of
state
development
and
expansion
1. various
productive
strategiesagrarian,
pastoral,
mercantile
2. various
cultural
and
ideological
foundationsreligions,
philosophies,
ideas
of
nationalism
3. various
social
and
gender
structures
&
different
environmental
contexts
C) Continuity
and
change
1. Organizational
and
cultural
foundations
of
long-term
stability
vs.
internal
and
external
causes
of
conflict
2. Types
of
stateskingdoms,
empires,
nation-states,
autocracies
and
constitutional
democracies
D) Interstate
relations
1. Warfare
&
diplomacy
2. Commercial
and
cultural
exchange
3.
Formation
of
international
organizations.
A) Development
of
Economic
Systems
1. Diverse
patterns
and
systems
developed
through
exploitation
of
the
environment
2. Diverse
patterns
and
systems
to
produce,
distribute,
and
consume
desired
goods
and
services
across
time
and
space.
B) Transitions
in
human
economic
activity
1. Growth
and
spread
of
agricultural,
pastoral,
and
industrial
production
2. Development
of
various
labor
systems
associated
with
these
economic
systemsdifferent
forms
of
household
management
and
the
use
of
coerced
or
free
labor)
3. Ideologies,
values,
and
institutionscapitalism
and
socialism
C) Patterns
of
trade
and
commerce
between
societies
1. Relationship
between
regional
and
global
networks
of
communication
and
exchange
2. Effects
on
economic
growth
and
decline.
3. Influence
cultural
and
technological
diffusion,
migration,
state
formation,
social
classes,
and
human
interaction
with
the
environment.
A) Social
stratification
1. Distinctions
based
on
kinship
systems,
ethnic
associations,
and
hierarchies
of
gender,
race,
wealth,
and
class.
2. Processes
through
which
social
categories,
roles,
and
practices
were
created,
maintained,
and
transformed.
3. Connections
between
changes
in
social
structures
and
other
historical
shiftstrends
in
political
economy,
cultural
expression,
and
human
ecology.