Exploration Learning Objectives
1. Describe how geographic factors promote or impede the movement of people, products, and ideas.
2. Identify examples of improvements in transportation, communication, and technology and explain how they have
facilitated cultural diffusion among peoples around the world.
3. Explain how trade leads to specialization and interdependence.
4. Analyze how the distribution of resources leads to specialization and trade.
5. Explain how the growth of cities and empires fostered the growth of markets.
6. Analyze the impact of European explorations, conquests, and colonization on indigenous people and European
nations.
7. Explain how the Columbian Exchange reshaped previously unconnected societies in ways still evident today.
8. Demonstrate how maps and other geographic representations can be used to trace the development of human settlement over time.
9. Explain how Greek democracy and the Roman Republic influenced the structure and function of modern democratic governments.
10. Explain why individuals, governments, and businesses must analyze costs and benefits when making economic decisions.
11. Describe how a cost-benefit analysis of an action consists of short and long term consequences.
12. Explain how trade routes connecting Africa, Europe, and Asia fostered the spread of ideas, technology, goods, and major world religions.
13. Describe historical events and issues from the perspectives of people living at the time to avoid evaluating the past in terms of today’s norms and values.
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