Social Studies HS Guide

the diffusion of ideas, technologies, and disease. ○ Learning Intention #1:

■ Students will evaluate the long-term effects of the Mongol conquest, such as the diffusion of ideas. ○ Learning Intention #2: ■ Students will evaluate the long-term effects of the Mongol conquest, such as technologies. ○ Learning Intention #3: ■ Students will evaluate the long-term effects of the Mongol conquest, such as disease. ● WH Standard 3.4: Students will explain the social, political, religious, technological, and economic changes in medieval Europe that created a context for later European colonization. ○ Learning Intention #1: ■ Students will explain the social changes in medieval Europe that created a context for later European colonization. ○ Learning Intention #2: ■ Students will explain the political changes in medieval Europe that created a context for later European colonization. ○ Learning Intention #3: ■ Students will explain the religious changes in medieval Europe that created a context for later European colonization. ○ Learning Intention #4: ■ Students will explain the technological changes in medieval Europe that created a context for later European colonization. ○ Learning Intention #5: ■ Students will explain the economic changes in medieval Europe that created a context for later European colonization. ● WH Standard 3.5: Students will identify patterns in the diffusion of technology, writing, religion, political systems, and other elements of civilization, using case studies, such as: the Chinese impact on Japan, the Arabic impact on Mali, the Byzantine impact on Russia, the Roman impact on Europe, and the Olmec impact on later American civilizations . ○ Learning Intention #1: - (focuses on the Roman impact on Europe, but it is not limited to this case study.) ■ Students will identify patterns in the diffusion of technology regarding the Roman impact on Europe. ○ Learning Intention #2: - (focuses on the Roman impact on Europe, but it is not limited to this case study.) ■ Students will identify patterns in the diffusion of writing regarding the Roman impact on Europe. ○ Learning Intention #3: - (focuses on the Roman impact on Europe, but it is not limited to this case study.) ■ Students will identify patterns in the diffusion of religion regarding the Roman impact on Europe. ○ Learning Intention #4: - (focuses on the Roman impact on Europe, but it is not limited to this case study.) ■ Students will identify patterns in the diffusion of political systems regarding the Roman impact on Europe. NOTE: Students should develop skills associated with history to construct arguments using historical thinking skills. Of particular importance in a world history course is developing the reading, thinking, and writing skills of historians. These skills are vertically aligned throughout the curriculum guide with the intent to support the skills needed for students to become critical thinkers and to think like an historian.