California Content Standards |
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History and Social Science |
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Grade Six. World History and Geography: Ancient Civilizations
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HSS.6.5. Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the early civilizations of India. |
| HSS.6.5.1. Locate and describe the major river system and discuss the physical setting that sup-ported the rise of this civilization. |
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| HSS.6.5.2. Discuss the significance of the Aryan invasions. |
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| HSS.6.5.3. Explain the major beliefs and practices of Brahmanism in India and how they evolved into early Hinduism. |
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| HSS.6.5.4. Outline the social structure of the caste system. |
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| HSS.6.5.5. Know the life and moral teachings of Buddha and how Buddhism spread in India, Ceylon, and Central Asia. |
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| HSS.6.5.6. Describe the growth of the Maurya empire and the political and moral achievements of the emperor Asoka. |
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| HSS.6.5.7. Discuss important aesthetic and intellectual traditions (e.g., Sanskrit literature, including the Bhagavad Gita; medicine; metallurgy; and mathematics, including Hindu-Arabic numerals and the zero). |