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9 Assessment Guide for Educators: Social Studies Chapter 1: Assessment Targets each other, conditions, and events. For example, societies and civilizations have developed and changed in response to particular geographic features and natural events. National economies respond to both governmental policies and natural laws of economics—such as supply and demand—around which policies are built. Similarly, countries respond to both internal and external changes and challenges in ways that are beyond the ability of any one person to control. The Social Studies Content Topics Matrix on the next page identifies the major topics in social studies and shows the relationship between each content topic and each focusing theme. Each content topic in the matrix below contains a broad range of ideas. Additionally, each topic is aligned to a particular theme. The Development of Modern Liberties and Democracy theme easily lends itself to ideas relevant to civics and government as well as U.S. history, and the Dynamic Responses in Societal Systems is more closely tied to topics in economics and geography and the world. The following Social Studies Content Topics table provides greater detail on each topic. Individual test items are drawn from the subtopics.