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List of Benchmarks for World History 
 Standard 36.Understands patterns of global change in the era of Western military and economic dominance from 1800 to 1914
  
Topics1. European, American, and Japanese imperial expansion; 2. Colonies and colonial systems ; 3. Role of individuals in history
   Level III (Grade 7-8)
  Benchmark 3.Understands European motives and ideology that justified extending imperial power into African and Asian countries (e.g., the motives that impelled several European powers to undertake imperial expansion against peoples of Africa, Southeast Asia, and China; achievements of Cecil Rhodes and his motives and goals in the "scramble for Africa")
   Vocabulary terms
A.  European motives for imperial expansion
B.  ideologies of European imperial expansion
  Knowledge/skill statements
  1. Understands European motives that justified extending imperial power into African and Asian countries   
  2. Understands European ideology that justified extending imperial power into African and Asian countries   
  3. Knows the motives that impelled several European powers to undertake imperial expansion against peoples of Africa, Southeast Asia, and China   
  4. Knows the achievements of Cecil Rhodes    
  5. Knows Cecil Rhode’s motives and goals in the "scramble for Africa"   


Citation Log: BD(BE,195;​C;​WE,236;​LI,279)
Citation reference
BD = benchmark, declarative
BP = benchmark, procedural
BC = benchmark, contextual

1st letter/number of each code in parentheses:
B   NCHS: Basic Edition
L   Lessons from History
W   NCHS: World History, expanded edition

2nd letter code :
E = Explicitly stated in document
I = Implicit in document

Number:
Page number of the cited document