Technology has evolved hand-in-hand with human societies. These important tools and skills have enabled civilizations to flourish throughout human history. In the ancient world, technology helped civilizations emerge, develop, and change in many ways.
The student understands how and why humans established settled communities and experimented with agriculture.
Analyze differences between hunter-gatherer and agrarian communities in economy, social organization, and quality of living.
Analyze how peoples of West Africa, Europe, Southeast Asia, East Asia, and the Americas domesticated food plants and developed agricultural communities in response to local needs and conditions.
Trace the network of trade routes connecting various ancient civilizations and assess the economic and cultural significance of those commercial connections.
Analyze connections between the spread of agriculture and the acceleration of world population growth.
Compare the forms of writing that developed in several civilizations and how written records shaped political, legal, religious, and cultural life.
Explain the fundamentals of bronze-making technology and assess the uses and significance of bronze tools, weapons, and luxury goods in the third and second millennia BCE.
Describe fundamental inventions, discoveries, techniques, and institutions that appeared during this period and assess the significance of bronze technology for economic, cultural, and political life.