Performance Indicator - SS.I.2.1A:
Students know the social and economic characteristics, such as customs, traditions, child-rearing practices, ways of making a living, education, and socialization practices, gender roles, foods, and religious and spiritual beliefs that distinguish different cultures and civilizations.

Performance Indicator - SS.I.2.1B:
Students know some important historical events and developments of past civilizations.

Performance Indicator - SS.I.2.1C:
Students interpret and analyze documents and artifacts related to significant developments and events in world history.

Performance Indicator - SS.I.2.2A:
Students develop timelines by placing important events and developments in world history in their correct chronological order.

Performance Indicator - SS.I.2.2B:
Students measure time periods by years, decades, centuries, and millennia.

Performance Indicator - SS.I.2.2C:
Students study about major turning points in world history by investigating the causes and other factors that brought about change and the results of these changes.

Performance Indicator - SS.I.2.3A:
Students investigate the roles and contributions of individuals and groups in relation to key social, political, cultural, and religious practices throughout world history.

Performance Indicator - SS.I.2.3B:
Students interpret and analyze documents and artifacts related to significant developments and events in world history.

Performance Indicator - SS.I.2.3C:
Students classify historic information according to the type of activity or practice: social/cultural, political, economic, geographic, scientific, technological, and historic.

Performance Indicator - SS.I.2.4A:
Students explain the literal meaning of a historical passage or primary source document, identifying who was involved, what happened, where it happened, what events led up to these developments, and what consequences or outcomes followed.

Performance Indicator - SS.I.2.4B:
Students analyze different interpretations of important events and themes in world history and explain the various frames of reference expressed by different historians.

Performance Indicator - SS.I.2.4C:
Students view history through the eyes of those who witnessed key events and developments in world history by analyzing their literature, diary accounts, letters, artifacts, art, music, architectural, drawings, and other documents.

Performance Indicator - SS.I.2.4D:
Student investigate important events and developments in world history by posing analytical questions, selecting relevant data, distinguishing fact from opinion, hypothesizing cause-and-effect relationships, testing these hypotheses, and forming conclusions.