TAKS Objective

2. The student will demonstrate an understanding of geographic influences on historical issues and events.

Knowledge and Skill Statement

(WG 1) History. The student understands how geographic contexts (the geography of places in the past) and processes of spatial exchange (diffusion) influenced events in the past and helped to shape the present.

Student Expectation

(A) analyze the effects of physical and human geographic patterns and processes on events in the past [and describe their effects on present conditions, including significant physical features and environmental conditions that influenced migration patterns in the past and shaped the distribution of culture groups today] (correlates with WH12B)