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

(B) trace the spatial diffusion of a phenomenon and describe its effects on regions of contact such as the spread of bubonic plague, the diffusion and exchange of foods between the New and Old Worlds, [or the diffusion of American slang].