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Geography of the Italian Peninsula and the Mediterranean
Explain how the central location of the Italian peninsula, fertile plains, and Mediterranean sea lanes facilitated Roman expansion.
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Ancient Rome: Republic, Empire, and Law
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Examine the geographic setting of Rome, the institutions of the Roman Republic, the transition to Empire, Pax Romana, the rise of Christianity, and the fall of the Western Empire.
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6.G1.1Arizona Social Studies Standards · All agesUse and construct maps, graphs, and other representations to explain relationships between locations of places and regions. Key concepts include major landforms and water bodies, countries, cities, ecosystems, climate, languages, religion, economic systems, governmental systems, population patterns, disease, trade routes, and settlement patterns
6.G2.1Arizona Social Studies Standards · All agesCompare diverse ways people or groups of people have impacted, modified, or adapted to the environment of the Eastern Hemisphere. Key concepts include but are not limited to hunter-gatherer communities, human settlement, Neolithic Revolution, irrigation and farming, domestication of animals, and influence of climate and seasons