Unit 1: Studying Complex Societies

Supporting question: What do the social sciences contribute to our understanding of the world?

Standards

1. Explain how different academic fields in the social sciences concentrate on different means of studying societies in the past and present.

2. Give examples of ways in which a current historical interpretation might build on, extend, or reject an interpretation of the past.

3. Give examples of how archaeologists, historians, geographers, economists, and political scientists work as teams to analyze evidence, develop hypotheses, and construct interpretations of ancient and classical civilizations