Idaho 8th Grade Social Studies Standards

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World History and Civilization

• 6-9.WHC.1 History
  • 6-9.WHC.1.6 Explain the rise of human civilization.
    • 6-9.WHC.1.6.1 Describe types of evidence used by anthropologists, archaeologists, and other scholars to reconstruct early human and cultural development.
    • 6-9.WHC.1.6.2 Describe the characteristics of early hunter-gatherer communities.
    • 6-9.WHC.1.6.3 Analyze the characteristics of early civilizations.
  • 6-9.WHC.1.7 Trace how natural resources and technological advances have shaped human civilization.
    • 6-9.WHC.1.7.1 Explain how man adapted the environment for civilization to develop.
    • 6-9.WHC.1.7.2 Identify the technological advances developed by Ancient, Greco Roman, Middle Age, Early-Modern, and Modern societies and civilizations.
  • 6-9.WHC.1.8 Build an understanding of the cultural and social development of human civilization.
    • 6-9.WHC.1.8.1 Find examples of how writing, art, architecture, mathematics, and science have evolved in civilizations over time.
    • 6-9.WHC.1.8.2 Identify the origins and characteristics of different social classes.
    • 6-9.WHC.1.8.3 Describe how the structure of family changes in relation to socioeconomic conditions.
  • 6-9.WHC.1.9 Identify the role of religion in the development of human civilization.
    • 6-9.WHC.1.9.1 Explain the relationship between religion and the peoples understanding of the natural world.
    • 6-9.WHC.1.9.2 Explain how religion shaped the development of civilizations.
    • 6-9.WHC.1.9.3 Discuss how religion influenced social behavior and created social order.
    • 6-9.WHC.1.9.4 Describe why different religious beliefs were sources of conflict.
• 6-9.WHC.2 Geography
  • 6-9.WHC.2.1 Analyze the spatial organizations of people, places, and environment on the earth’s surface.
    • 6-9.WHC.2.1.1 Develop and interpret different kinds of maps, globes, graphs, charts, databases, and models.
  • 6-9.WHC.2.3 Trace the migration and settlement of human populations on the earth’s surface.
    • 6-9.WHC.2.3.1 Identify main reasons for major migrations of people.
    • 6-9.WHC.2.3.2 Explain how climate affects human migration and settlement.
    • 6-9.WHC.2.3.3 Describe how physical features, such as mountain ranges, fertile plains, and rivers led to the development of cultural regions.
    • 6-9.WHC.2.3.4 Explain how transportation routes stimulate growth of cities and the exchange of goods, knowledge, and technology.
  • 6-9.WHC.2.4 Analyze the human and physical characteristics of different places and regions.
    • 6-9.WHC.2.4.1 Explain the impact of waterways on civilizations.
  • 6-9.WHC.2.5 Explain how geography enables people to comprehend the relationships between people, places, and environments over time.
    • 6-9.WHC.2.5.1 Explain how the resources of an area can be the source of conflict between competing groups.
    • 6-9.WHC.2.5.2 Illustrate how the population growth rate impacts a nation’s resources.
    • 6-9.WHC.2.5.3 Explain how rapid growth of cities can lead to economic, social, and political problems.
    • 6-9.WHC.2.5.4 Describe how the conservation of resources is necessary to maintain a healthy environment.
• 6-9.WHC.3 Economics
  • 6-9.WHC.3.1 Explain basic economic concepts.
    • 6-9.WHC.3.1.1 Explain how people historically have relied on their natural resources to meet their needs.
    • 6-9.WHC.3.1.2 List examples that show how economic opportunity and a higher standard of living are important factors in the migration of people.
    • 6-9.WHC.3.1.3 Analyze the role of money as a means of exchange.
    • 6-9.WHC.3.1.4 Describe alternative means of exchange.
  • 6-9.WHC.3.2 Identify different influences on economic systems.
    • 6-9.WHC.3.2.1 Analyze the impact of economic growth on society.
    • 6-9.WHC.3.2.2 Trace the evolution of hunting-gathering, agrarian, industrial, and technological economic systems.
    • 6-9.WHC.3.2.3 Identify influential economic thinkers and the impact of their philosophies.
    • 6-9.WHC.3.2.4 Identify important economic organizations that have influenced economic growth.
• 6-9.WHC.4 Civics and Government
  • 6-9.WHC.4.4 Build an understanding of the evolution of democracy.
    • 6-9.WHC.4.4.1 Describe the role of government in population movements throughout civilization.
    • 6-9.WHC.4.4.2 Analyze the various political influences which shaped civilizations including the City-State, Monarchy, Republic, Nation-State, and Democracy.
    • 6-9.WHC.4.4.3 Analyze and evaluate the global expansion of liberty and democracy through revolution and reform movements in challenging authoritarian or despotic regimes.
• 6-9.WHC.5 Global Perspectives
  • 6-9.WHC.5.1 Build an understanding of multiple perspectives and global interdependence.
    • 6-9.WHC.5.1.1 Explain common reasons and consequences for the breakdown of order among nation-states, such as conflicts about national interests, ethnicity, and religion; competition for resources and territory; the absence of effective means to enforce international law.
    • 6-9.WHC.5.1.2 Explain the global consequences of major conflicts in the 20th century, such as World War I; World War II and the Holocaust; and the Cold War.
    • 6-9.WHC.5.1.3 Evaluate why peoples unite for political, economic, and humanitarian reasons.