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5952958101Time period 1Technological and Environmental Transformations 8000-600 BCE0
5952960571Time Period 2Organization and Reorganization of Human Societies 600 BCE - 600 CE1
5952965082Time Period 3Regional and Interregional Interactions 600-14502
5952974334Time Period 4Global Interactions 1450-17503
5952982638Time Period 5Industrialization and Global Integration 1750-19004
5952988626Time Period 6Accelerating Global Change and Realignments 1900-Present5
5952994592Theme 1Interaction Between Humans and the Enviroment6
5952998463Theme 2Development and Interaction of Cultures7
5953001353Theme 3State Building, Expansion, and Conflict8
5953005414Theme 4Creation, Expansion, and Interaction of Economic Systems9
5953008654Theme 5Development and Transformation of Social Structures10
5953268225Analyzing Evidence: Content and SourcingA1 - Explain the relevance of the author's POV, purpose, audience, format, and historical context to understand the significance of a primary source **SOAP: Speaker, Occasion, Audience, Purpose. A2 - Evaluate the usefulness, reliability, or limitations or a primary source.11
5953578151InterpretationB1 - Analyze a historian's argument, explain how the argument has been supported through the analysis of relevant historical evidence, and evaluate the argument's effectiveness. B2 - Analyze diverse historical interpretations.12
5999905184ComparisonC1 - Compare diverse perspectives represented in primary and secondary sources in order to draw conclusions about one or more historical events. C2 - Compare different historical individuals, events, developments, or processes, analyzing both similarities and differences in order to draw historically valid conclusions. ** Comparisons can be made across different time periods, geographic locations, etc.13
5999927740ContextualizationC3 - Situate historical events, developments, or processes within the broader regional, national, or global context in which they occurred in order to draw conclusions about their relative significance.14
5999939032SynthesisC4 - Make connections between a given historical issue and related developments in a different historical context, geographical area, period, or era, including the present. C5 - Make connections between different courses themes and approaches to history (such as political, economic, social, cultural, or intellectual) for a given historical issue. C6 - Use insights from a different discipline (such as economics, government and politics, art history, anthropology) to better understand a given historical issue.15
6000013303CausationD1 - Explain long or short term causes and effects of a historical event, development or process. D2 - Evaluate the relative significance of different causes/effects on historical events or processes, distinguishing between causation or correlation and showing an awareness of historical contingency.16
6000049193Patterns of Continuity and Change Over Time (CCOT)D3 - Identify patterns of continuity and change over time and explain the significance of such patterns. D4 - Explain how patterns of continuity and change over time relate to larger historical processes or themes.17
6000069895PeriodizationD5 - Explain ways historical events and processes can be organized into discrete, different, and definable historical periods. D6 - Evaluate whether a particular event or date could or could not be a turning point between different, definable historical periods, when considered in terms of particular historical evidence. D7 - Analyze different and/or competing models of periodization18
6000228901ArgumentationE1 - Articulate a defensible claim about the past in the form of a clear and compelling thesis that evaluates the relative importance of multiple factors and recognizes disparate, diverse, and contradictory evidence or perspectives. E2 - Develop and support a historical argument, including in a written essay, through a close analysis of relevant and diverse historical evidence, framing the argument and evidence around the application of specific historical thinking skill. E3 - Evaluate evidence to explain its relevance to a claim or thesis, providing clear and consistent links between the evidence and the argument. E4 - Relate diverse historical evidence in a cohesive way to illustrate contradiction, corroboration, qualification, and other type of historical relationships in developing an argument.19

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