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How Trade Networks Spread Technologies and Ideas Between Cultures
Explain how merchant caravans and sea traders transferred agricultural crops, metallurgical techniques, and writing systems across regional borders.
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Early Civilizations and Cross-Cultural Interactions
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Compare key civilizations across Afro-Eurasia and the Americas, evaluating how trade, diplomacy, warfare, and cultural exchanges shaped the ancient world.
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6.H1.2Arizona Social Studies Standards · All agesExplain the causes and effects of interactions between cultures and civilizations. Key concepts include but are not limited to trade, competition, warfare, slavery, serfdom, innovations, and contributions.
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