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How Natural Disasters in One Region Affect People in Other Places
Describe how catastrophic events such as droughts, floods, and volcanic eruptions disrupted food supply, displaced populations, and impacted distant regions.
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Geography, Regional Environments, and Human Settlement
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Analyze how physical geography, climate variability, catastrophic events, and resource availability shaped early human settlements, cities, and migration patterns.
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Learning standards covered
6.G3.2Arizona Social Studies Standards · All agesAnalyze the influence of location, use of natural resources, catastrophic environmental events, and technological developments on human settlement and migration. Key concepts include but are not limited to development of early river civilization, pastoral societies, rise of cities, innovations in transportation, and collapse of empires
6.G4.2Arizona Social Studies Standards · All agesDescribe how natural and human-made catastrophic events and economic activities in one place affect people living in nearby and distant places. Key concepts include but are not limited to disease, war, items exchanged, ideas spread along trade routes, and natural disasters