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World History NC Essential Standards Earth & Environmental Science Essential Standards


 * Beginnings: Making Sense of it All**
 * Explain the Earth’s role as a body in space (EE1)
 * Explain the Earth’s motion through space, including precession, nutuation, the barycenter, and its path about the galaxy (1.1)
 * Explain how the Earth’s rotation and revolution about the Sun affects its shape and is related to seasons and tides (1.2)
 * Explain how the sun produces energy which is transferred to the Earth by radiation (1.3)
 * Explain how incoming solar energy makes life possible on Earth (1.4)
 * Explain the structure and processes within the hydrosphere (E2.3)
 * Explain how water is an energy agent (Currents and heat transfer) (E2.3.1)
 * Explain how grown water and surface water interact (E2.3.2)


 * **Analyze ancient civilizations and empires in terms of their development, growth and lasting impact.**
 * **WH.2.1** Compare how different geographic issues of the ancient period influenced settlement, trading networks and the sustainability of various ancient civilizations (e.g., flooding, fertile crescent, confluence, limited fertile lands, etc.).
 * **WH.2.2** Analyze the governments of ancient civilizations in terms of their development, structure and function within various societies (e.g., theocracy, democracy, oligarchy, tyranny, aristocracy, etc.).
 * **WH.2.3** Explain how codifying laws met the needs of ancient societies (e.g., Hammurabi, Draco, Justinian, Theodosius, etc.).
 * **WH.2.4** Analyze the rise and spread of various empires in terms of influence, achievements and lasting impact (e.g., Mongol, Mughal, Ottoman, Ming, Mesoamerica, Inca, Imperial states in Africa, etc.).
 * **WH.2.5** Analyze the development and growth of major Eastern and Western religions (e.g., Including but not limited to Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and Shintoism, etc.).
 * **WH.2.6** Analyze the interaction between the Islamic world and Europe and Asia in terms of increased trade, enhanced technology innovation, and an impact on scientific thought and the arts.
 * **WH.2.7** Analyze the relationship between trade routes and the development and decline of major empires (e.g. Ghana, Mali, Songhai, Greece, Rome, China, Mughal, Mongol, Mesoamerica, Inca, etc.).
 * **WH.2.8** Compare the conditions, racial composition, and status of social classes, castes, and slaves in ancient societies and analyze changes in those elements.
 * **WH.2.9** Evaluate the achievements of ancient civilizations in terms of their enduring cultural impact.


 * Understanding the World through Conflict**


 * **Understand how conflict and innovation influenced political, religious, economic and social changes in medieval civilizations.**
 * **WH.3.1** Explain how religion influenced political power and cultural unity in various regions of the Europe, Asia and Africa (e.g., Carolingian Dynasty, Holy Roman Empire, Ottoman Empire, Mughal Empire, Safavid Empire).
 * **WH.3.2** Explain how religious and secular struggles for authority impacted the structure of government and society in Europe, Asia, and Africa (e.g., Cluniac Reforms, common law, Magna Carta, conflicts between popes and emperors, Crusades, religious schisms, Hundred Years’ War, etc.).
 * **WH.3.3** Analyze how innovations in agriculture, trade and business impacted the economic and social development of various medieval societies (e.g., Feudalism, Agricultural Revolutions, Commercial Revolution and development of a banking system, manorial system, growth of towns, etc.).
 * **WH.3.4** Analyze how the desire for farmable land created conflict and impacted the physical environments of Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas (e.g., Agricultural Revolution in Europe, Muslim Agricultural Revolution, Mesoamerican and Andean agricultural innovations, etc.).
 * **Analyze the political, economic, social and cultural factors that lead to the development of the first age of global interaction.**
 * **WH.4.1** Explain how interest in classical learning and religious reform contributed to increased global interaction (e.g., Renaissance, Protestant Reformation, Catholic Reformation, Printing revolution, etc.).
 * **WH.4.2** Explain the political, social and economic reasons for the rise of powerful centralized nation-states and empires (e.g., Reformation, absolutism, limited monarchy, empires, etc.).
 * **WH.4.3** Explain how agricultural and technological improvements transformed daily life socially and economically (e.g., growth of towns, creation of guilds, feudalism and the manorial system, commercialization, etc.).
 * **WH.4.4** Analyze the effects of increased global trade on the interactions between nations in Europe, Southwest Asia, the Americas and Africa (e.g., exploration, mercantilism, inflation, rise of capitalism, etc.).
 * **Analyze exploration and expansion in terms of its motivations and impact.**
 * **WH.5.1** Explain how and why the motivations for exploration and conquest resulted in increased global interactions, differing patterns of trade, colonization, and conflict among nations (e.g., religious and political motives, adventure, economic investment, Columbian exchange, commercial revolution, conquistador destruction of Aztec and Incan civilizations, Triangular Trade, Middle Passage, trading outposts, plantation colonies, rise of capitalism, etc.).
 * **WH.5.2** Explain the causes and effects of exploration and expansion (e.g., technological innovations and advances, forces that allowed the acquisition of colonial possessions and trading privileges in Africa, Asia, the Americas and the Colombian exchange).
 * **WH.5.3** Analyze colonization in terms of the desire for access to resources and markets as well as the consequences on indigenous cultures, population, and environment (e.g., commercial revolution, Columbian exchange, religious conversion, spread of Christianity, spread of disease, spread of technology, conquistadors, slave trade, encomienda system, enslavement of indigenous people, mixing of populations, etc.).
 * **WH.5.4** Analyze the role of investment in global exploration in terms of its implications for international trade (e.g., transatlantic trade, mercantilism, joint-stock companies, trading companies, government and monarchial funding, corporations, creation of capital markets, etc.).
 * Explain how processes and forces affect the lithosphere (E2.1)
 * Explain how the rock cycle, plate tectonics, volcanoes, and earthquakes impact the lithosphere (E2.1.1)
 * Predict the locations of volcanoes, earthquakes, and faults based on information contained in a variety of maps (E2.1.2)
 * Explain how natural actions such as weathering, erosion, and soil formation affect the Earth’s surface (E2.1.3)
 * Explain the probability of and preparation for geohazards such as landslides, avalanches, earthquakes and volcanoes in a particular area based on available data (E2.1.4)
 * Evaluate how humans use water (E2.4)
 * Evaluate human influence on freshwater availability (E2.4.1)
 * Evaluate human influences on water quality in North Carolina’s river basins, wetlands and tidal environments (E2.4.2)


 * Modernization: Dealing with (Not so) New Problems**


 * **Understand the Age of Revolutions and Rebellions.**
 * **WH.6.1** Explain how new ideas and theories of the universe altered political thought and affected economic and social conditions (e.g., Scientific Revolution, Enlightenment, rationalism, secularism, humanism, tolerance, empiricism, natural rights, contractual government, laissez-faire economics, Bacon, Descartes, Galileo, Newton, inductive and deductive reasoning, heliocentric, inquisition, woks of Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Bolivar, Jefferson, Paine, Adam Smith, etc.).
 * **WH.6.2** Analyze political revolutions in terms of their causes and impact on independence, governing bodies and church-state relations. (e.g., Glorious Revolution, American Revolution, French Revolution, Russian Revolution, Haitian, Mexican, Chinese, etc.).
 * **WH.6.3** Explain how physical geography and natural resources influenced industrialism and changes in the environment (e.g., agricultural revolutions, technological innovations in farming, land use, deforestation, industrial towns, pollution, etc.).
 * **WH.6.4** Analyze the effects of industrialism and urbanization on social and economic reform (e.g., Industrial Revolution, urbanization, growth of middle class, increase in productivity and wealth, changes in economic status, new types of labor organizations, etc.).
 * **Understand how national, regional, and ethnic interests have contributed to conflict among groups and nations in the modern era.**
 * **WH.7.1** Evaluate key turning points of the modern era in terms of their lasting impact (e.g., conflicts, documents, policies, movements, etc.).
 * **WH.7.2** Analyze the increase in economic and military competition among nations in terms of the influences of nationalism, imperialism, militarism, and industrialization (e.g., Ottoman Empire, Japanese Empire, Prussian Empire, the German Empire, “Have and Have Nots” of Europe, industrial America, etc.).
 * **WH.7.3** Analyze economic and political rivalries, ethnic and regional conflicts, and nationalism and imperialism as underlying causes of war (e.g., WWI, Russian Revolution, WWII).
 * **WH.7.4** Explain how social and economic conditions of colonial rule contributed to the rise of nationalistic movements (e.g., India, Africa, Southeast Asia).
 * **WH.7.5** Analyze the emergence of capitalism as a dominate economic pattern and the responses to it from various nations and groups (e.g., utopianism, social democracy, socialism, communism, etc.).
 * **WH.7.6** Explain how economic crisis contributed to the growth of various political and economic movements (e.g., Great Depression, nationalistic movements of colonial Africa and Asia, socialist and communist movements, effect on capitalist economic theory, etc.).
 * Understand how human influences impact the lithosphere (E2.2)
 * Explain the consequences of human activities on the lithosphere (E2.2.1)
 * Compare the various methods of humans use to acquire traditional energy sources (E2.2.2)
 * Understand the structure of and processes within our atmosphere
 * Summarize the structure and composition of our atmosphere (E2.5.1)
 * Explain the formation of typical air masses and the weather systems that result from air mass interactions (E2.5.2)
 * Explain how cyclonic storms form based on the interaction of air masses (E2.5.3)
 * Predict the weather using available weather maps and data (E2.5.4)
 * Explain how human activities affect air quality (E2.5.5)


 * Conflict Resolution: Solutions for Complex Problems**


 * **Analyze global interdependence and shifts in power in terms of political, economic, social and environmental changes and conflicts since the last half of the twentieth century.**
 * **WH.8.1** Evaluate global wars in terms of how they challenged political and economic power structures and gave rise to new balances of power (e.g., Spanish American War, WWI, WWII, Vietnam War, Colonial Wars in Africa, Persian Gulf War, etc.).
 * **WH.8.2** Explain how international crisis has impacted international politics (e.g., Berlin Blockade, Korean War, Hungarian Revolt, Cuban Missile Crisis, OPEC oil crisis, Iranian Revolt, “911”, terrorism, etc.).
 * **WH.8.3** Analyze the “new” balance of power and the search for peace and stability in terms of how each has influenced global interactions since the last half of the twentieth century (e.g., post WWII, Post Cold War, 1990s Globalization, New World Order, Global Achievements and Innovations).
 * **WH.8.1** Analyze scientific, technological and medical innovations of postwar decades in terms of their impact on systems of production, global trade and standards of living (e.g., satellites, computers, social networks, information highway).
 * **WH.8.2** Explain how population growth, urbanization, industrialization, warfare and the global market economy have contributed to changes in the environment (e.g., deforestation, pollution, clear cutting, Ozone depletion, climate change, global warming, industrial emissions and fuel combustion, habitat destruction, etc.).
 * **WH.8.3** Explain how liberal democracy, private enterprise and human rights movements have reshaped political, economic and social life in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe, the Soviet Union and the United States (e.g., U.N. Declaration of Human Rights, end of Cold War, apartheid, perestroika, glasnost, etc.).
 * **WH.8.4** Explain why terrorist groups and movements have proliferated and the extent of their impact on politics and society in various countries (e.g., Basque, PLO, IRA, Tamil Tigers, Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, etc.).
 * Analyze patterns of global climate change over time
 * Differentiate between weather and climate (E2.6.1)
 * Explain changes in global climate due to natural processes (E2.6.2)
 * Analyze the impacts that human activities have on global climate change (E2.6.3)
 * Attribute changes in Earth Systems to global climate change (E2.6.4)
 * Explain how the lithosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere individually and collectively affect the biosphere
 * Explain how abiotic and biotic factors interact to create the various biomes in NC (E2.7.1)
 * Explain why biodiversity is important to the biosphere (E2.7.2)
 * Explain how human activities impact the biosphere (E2.7.3)
 * Evaluate human behaviors in terms of how likely they are to ensure the ability to live sustainably on Earth
 * Evaluate alternative technologies for use in NC (E2.8.1)
 * Critique conventional and sustainable agriculture and aquaculture practices in terms of their environmental impacts (E2.8.2)
 * Explain the effects of uncontrolled population growth on the Earth’s resources (E2.8.3)
 * Evaluate the concept of “Reduce, reuse, recycle in terms of impact on natural resources (E2.8.4)