Social Studies (2010) Grade(s): 9 - World History

SS10.WH.4

Explain the relationship between physical geography and cultural development in India, Africa, Japan, and China in the early Global Age, including trade and travel, natural resources, and movement and isolation of peoples and ideas.

Unpacked Content

Knowledge

Students know:
  • The relationship and development of India, Africa, Japan, and China culturally and geographically in the early Global Age.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Using a variety of primary and secondary resources including, literature, visual art, and maps, identify physical and cultural aspects of regions.
  • Recognize the influence of historical activities. Evaluate the role of physical geography on the development of regions.
  • Identify and illustrate physical geographic traits on a variety of types of maps.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • There is an important relationship between physical geography and cultural development in India, Africa, Japan, and China in the early Global Age.

Vocabulary

  • cultural development
  • physical geography
  • natural resources
  • isolation
  • Global Age
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