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Origins of the Silk Road and Early Afro-Eurasian Exchange
Analyze how early overland trade connected Han China with Rome, spreading commodities, technologies, and ideas.
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Classical Mediterranean and Trans-Eurasian Networks
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Analyze the governance systems, philosophical traditions, and trade networks of classical Greece, Rome, Persia, and India.
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SS.7.2.1Colorado Social Studies Standards · All agesUse geographic tools and sources to research and make geographic inferences and predictions about the Eastern Hemisphere.
SS.7.3.1Colorado Social Studies Standards · All agesDescribe how economic systems in the Eastern Hemisphere developed based on access to resources, societal values, and human experiences in order to address the problem of scarcity.