Nubia - The Other Gift of the Nile

History-Social Science Content Standards Addressed

Historical and Social Sciences Analysis Skills - Grades Six Through Eight

Chronological and Spatial Thinking

1. Students explain how major events are related to one another in time.
2. Students construct various timelines of key events, people, and periods of the historical era they are studying.
3. Students use a variety of maps and document to identify physical and cultural features of neighborhoods, cities, states, and countries and to explain the historical migration of people, expansion and disintegration of empires, and growth of economic systems.

Research, Evidence, and Point of View

1. Students frame question that can be answered by historical study and research.
2. Students distinguish fact from opinion in historical narratives and stories
3. Students distinguish relevant from irrelevant information, essential from incidental information, and verifiable fro unverifiable information in historical narratives and stories.
4. Students assess the credibility of primary and secondary sources and draw sound conclusions from them.
5. Students detect the different historical points of view on historical events and determine the context in which the historical statements were made (the question asked, sources used, author's perspectives).

Historical Interpretation

1. Students explain the central issues and problems from the past, placing people and events in a matrix of time and place.
2. Students understand and distinguish cause, effect, sequence, and correlation in historical events, including the long-and short-term causal relations.
3. Students explain the sources of historical continuity and how the combination of ideas and events explains the emergence of new patterns.
4. Students recognize the role of chance, oversight, and error in history.
5. Students recognize that interpretations of history are subject to change as new information is uncovered.

World History and Geography: Ancient Civilizations - Grade Six

6.2 Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the early civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Kush

8. Identify the location of the Kush civilization and describe its political, commercial, and cultural relations with Egypt.