7.1 Students analyze the causes and effects of the vast expansion and ultimate disintegration of the Roman Empire.
7.2 Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the civilizations of Islam in the Middle Ages.
7.3 Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the civilizations of China in the Middle Ages.
7.4 Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the sub-Saharan civilizations of Ghana and Mali in Medieval Africa.
7.5 Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the civilizations of Medieval Japan.
7.6 Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the civilizations of Medieval Europe.
7.7 Students compare and contrast the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the Meso-American and Andean civilizations.
7.8 Students analyze the origins, accomplishments, and geographic diffusion of the Renaissance.
7.9 Students analyze the historical developments of the Reformation.
7.10 Students analyze the historical developments of the Scientific Revolution and its lasting effect on religious, political, and cultural institutions.
7.11 Students analyze political and economic change in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries (the Age of Exploration, the Enlightenment, and the Age of Reason).