The History Project - University of California, Davis
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6.1 - 1.003 the hunter-gatherer societies and their characteristics, including the development of tools and the use of fire
6.1 - 2.000 the location of human communities that populated the major regions of the world and how humans adapted to a variety of environments
6.1 - 3.0014 the climatic changes and human modifications of the physical environment that gave rise to the domestication of plants and animals and the increase in the sources of clothing and shelter
6.2 - 1.000 the location and description of the river systems, and physical settings that supported permanent settlement and early civilizations
6.2 - 2.001 the development of agricultural techniques that permitted the production of economic surplus and the emergence of cities as centers of culture and power
6.2 - 3.000 the relationship between religion and the social and political order in Mesopotamia and Egypt
6.2 - 4.000 the significance of Hammurabi’s Code
6.2 - 5.007 Egyptian art and architecture
6.2 - 6.002 the location and description of the role of Egyptian trade in the eastern Mediterranean and Nile valley
6.2 - 7.000 the significance of the lives of Queen Hatsheput and Ramses the Great
6.2 - 8.000 the location of the Kush civilization and its political, commercial and cultural relations with Egypt
6.2 - 9.000 the evolution of language and its written forms
6.3 - 1.000 the origins and significance of Judaism as the first monotheistic religion based on the concept of one God who sets down moral laws for humanity
6.3 - 2.000 the sources of the ethical teachings and central beliefs of Judaism (the Hebrew Bible, the Commentaries): belief in God, observance of law, practice of concepts of righteousness and justice, and importance of study; how the ideas of the Hebrew traditions
6.3 - 3.000 how Abraham, Moses, Naomi, Ruth, David, and Yohanan ben Zaccai influenced the development of the Jewish religion
6.3 - 4.000 the location of the settlements and movements of Hebrew peoples, including the Exodus, the movement to and from Egypt, and the significance of the Exodus experience to the Jewish people and other people in history
6.3 - 5.000 how Judaism survived and developed despite the continuing dispersion of much of the Jewish population from Jerusalem and the rest of the land of Israel after the destruction of the second Temple in 70
6.4 - 1.000 the connections between geography and the development of city-states in the region of the Aegean Sea, including patterns of trade and commerce among Greek city-states and within the wider Mediterranean region
6.4 - 2.000 the transition from tyranny and oligarchy to early democratic forms of government and back to dictatorship in ancient Greece, and the significance of the invention of the idea of citizenship
6.4 - 3.000 the key differences between Athenian or direct democracy and representative democracy (e.g., draw from Pericles’ Funeral Oration)
6.4 - 4.0012 the significance of Greek mythology to the everyday life of people in the region and how Greek literature continues to permeate our literature and language today, drawing from Greek mythology and epics such as the Iliad and the Odyssey and from Aesop’s F
6.4 - 5.000 the founding, expansion, and political organization of the Persian Empire
6.4 - 6.000 similarities and differences between life in Athens and Sparta, with emphasis on their roles in the Persian and Peloponnesian Wars
6.4 - 7.000 the rise of Alexander the Great in the North and the spread of Greek culture eastward and into Egypt
6.4 - 8.000 the enduring contributions of important Greek figures in the arts and sciences (e.g., biographies of Hypatia, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Euclid, Thucydides)
6.5 - 1.000 the location and description of the river system and physical setting that supported the rise of this civilization
6.5 - 2.000 the significance of the Aryan invasions
6.5 - 3.000 the major beliefs and practices of Brahmanism in India and how they evolved into early Hinduism
6.5 - 4.000 the social structure of the caste system
6.5 - 5.000 the life and moral teachings of Buddha and how Buddhism spread in India, Ceylon, and Central Asia
6.5 - 6.000 the growth of the Maurya empire and the political and moral achievements of the emperor Asoka
6.5 - 7.000 important aesthetic and intellectual traditions (e.g., Sanskrit literature, including the Bhagavad Gita, medicine, metallurgy, mathematics including Hindu-Arabic numerals and the zero)
6.6 - 1.000 the location and description of the origins of Chinese civilization in the Huang-He Valley Shang dynasty
6.6 - 2.000 the geographical features of China that made governance and movement of ideas and goods difficult and served to isolate that country from the rest of the world
6.6 - 3.000 the life of Confucius and the fundamental teachings of Confucianism and Taoism
6.6 - 4.000 the political and cultural problems prevalent in the time of Confucius and how he sought to solve them
6.6 - 5.000 the policies and achievements of the emperor Shi Huangdi in unifying northern China under the Qin dynasty
6.6 - 6.000 the political contributions of the Han dynasty to the development of the imperial bureaucratic state and the expansion of the empire
6.6 - 7.000 the significance of the trans-Eurasian "silk roads" in the period of the Han and Roman empires and their locations
6.6 - 8.000 the diffusion of Buddhism northward to China during the Han dynasty
6.7 - 1.003 the location and rise of the Roman Republic, including such important mythical and historical figures as Aeneas, Romulus and Remus, Cincinnatus, Julius Caesar, and Cicero
6.7 - 2.000 the character of the government of the Roman Republic and its significance (e.g., written constitution and tripartite government, checks and balances, civic duty)
6.7 - 3.002 the location of and the political and geographic reasons for the growth of Roman territories and expansion of the empire, including how the Roman empire fostered economic growth through the use of currency and trade routes
6.7 - 4.000 the influence of Julius Caesar and Augustus in Rome’s transition from republic to empire
6.7 - 5.000 the migration of Jews around the Mediterranean region and the effects of their conflict with the Romans, including the Romans' restrictions on their right to live in Jerusalem
6.7 - 6.000 the origins of Christianity in the Jewish Messianic prophecies, the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as described in the New Testament, and the contribution of St. Paul the Apostle to the definition and spread of Christian beliefs (e.g., belief in
6.7 - 7.000 the circumstances that led to the spread of Christianity in Europe and other Roman territories
6.7 - 8.000 the legacies of Roman art and architecture, technology and science, literature, language, and law

“Mr. Pollard took ideas for guiding history instruction and incorporated them into full activities and discussions to make the history classroom more engaging while also using established techniques to develop critical thinking. I got more out of Mr. Pollard's classroom than just a chronological series of events that took place in the United States. I came out with an idea of why events took place the way they did, and what that means for all of us today.”

Mo Torres
Natomas Charter School Graduate, Class of 2006, describing History Project Teacher Leader Jeff Pollard.
Natomas Charter School Graduate, Class of 2006