Sixth Grade California Content Standards

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6.6  Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the early civilizations of China. 
  1. Locate and describe the origins of Chinese civilization in the Huang-He Valley during the Shang Dynasty. 
  2. Explain the geographic features of China that made governance and the spread of ideas and good difficult and served to isolate the country from the rest of the world. 
  3. Know about the life of Confucius and the fundamental teachings of Confucianism and Taoism.
  4. Identify the political and cultural problems prevalent in the time of Confucius and how he sought to solve them.
  5. List the politices and achievement of the emperor Shi Huangdi in unifying northern China under the Qin Dynasty.
  6. Detail the political contributions of the Han Dynasty to the development of the imperial bureaucratic state and the expansion of the empire. 
  7. Detail the political contributions of the Han Dynasty to the development of the imperial bureaucratic state and teh expansion of the empire. 
  8. Cite the significance of the trans-Eurasian "silk roads" in the period of the Han Dynasty and Roman Empire and their locations.
  9. Describe the diffusion of Buddhism northward to China during the Han Dynasty.



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