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Unintended Consequences of Trade: The Spread of Disease
Analyze how trade routes served as vectors for infectious diseases and plagues, altering demographics and economies across Eurasia.
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Trans-Regional Trade and the Silk Road
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Analyze Afro-Eurasian trade networks, the Silk Roads, Indian Ocean maritime routes, economic specialization, and interregional interdependence.
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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.SP4.1Arizona Social Studies Standards · All agesExplain the multiple causes and effects of events and developments in the past.