NC Essential Standards
7.H.2.1 - Analyze the effects of social, economic, military, and political conflict among nations regions, and groups (e.g. war, genocide, imperialism, and colonization)
7.H.2.4 - Analyze the economic, political, and social impacts of disease (e.g. smallpox, malaria, bubonic plague, AIDS, and avian flu) in modern societies
7.G.1.1 - Explain how environmental conditions and human response to those conditions influence modern societies and regions (e.g. natural barriers, scarcity of resources, and factors that influence settlement)
7.E.1.1 - Explain how competition for resources affects the economic relationship among nations (e.g. colonialism, imperialism, globalization, and interdependence)
7.C.1.1 - Explain how culture unites and divides modern societies and regions (e.g. enslavement of various people, caste system, religious conflict, and Social Darwinism)