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Why Early Civilizations Settled in Fertile River Valleys
Analyze how fresh water, annual silt deposits, and arable soils enabled sedentary farming and population growth along major rivers.
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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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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.G4.1Arizona Social Studies Standards · All agesExplain why environmental characteristics vary among different world regions. Key concepts include but are not limited to latitude, elevation, landforms, location, and human factors