Standards - Social Studies

Tracing the spread of Islamic ideas through invasion and conquest throughout the Middle East, northern Africa, and western Europe

Describe China’s influence on culture, politics, and economics in Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia.

Compare the African civilizations of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai to include geography, religions, slave trade, economic systems, empires, and cultures.

Tracing the spread of language, religion, and customs from one African civilization to another

Illustrating the impact of trade among Ghana, Mali, and Songhai

Describe key aspects of pre-Columbian cultures in the Americas including the Olmecs, Mayas, Aztecs, Incas, and North American tribes.

Locating on a map sites of pre-Columbian cultures

Describe military and governmental events that shaped Europe in the early Middle Ages (600-1000 A.D.).

Describing the role of the early medieval church

Describing the impact of new agricultural methods on manorialism and feudalism

Describe major cultural changes in Western Europe in the High Middle Ages (1000-1300 A.D.).

Describing changing roles of church and governmental leadership

Comparing political developments in France, England, and the Holy Roman Empire, including the signing of the Magna Carta

Describing the growth of trade and towns resulting in the rise of the middle class

Explain how events and conditions fostered political and economic changes in the late Middle Ages and led to the origins of the Renaissance.

Identifying changes in the arts, architecture, literature, and science in the late Middle Ages (1300-1400 A.D.)

Describe developments in Italy and Northern Europe during the Renaissance period with respect to humanism, arts and literature, intellectual development, increased trade, and advances in technology.

Describe the role of mercantilism and imperialism in European exploration and colonization in the sixteenth century, including the Columbian Exchange.

Describing the impact of the Commercial Revolution on European society

Identifying major ocean currents, wind patterns, landforms, and climates affecting European exploration

Explain causes of the Reformation and its impact, including tensions between religious and secular authorities, reformers and doctrines, the Counter-Reformation, the English Reformation, and wars of religion.

Explain the relationship between physical geography and cultural development in India, Africa, Japan, and China in the early Global Age, including trade and travel, natural resources, and movement and isolation of peoples and ideas.

Depicting the general location of, size of, and distance between regions in the early Global Age

Describe the rise of absolutism and constitutionalism and their impact on European nations.

Contrasting philosophies of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke and the belief in the divine right of kings

Comparing absolutism as it developed in France, Russia, and Prussia, including the reigns of Louis XIV, Peter the Great, and Frederick the Great

Identifying major provisions of the Petition of Rights and the English Bill of Rights

Identify significant ideas and achievements of scientists and philosophers of the Scientific Revolution and the Age of Enlightenment.

Describe the impact of the French Revolution on Europe, including political evolution, social evolution, and diffusion of nationalism and liberalism.

Identifying causes of the French Revolution

Describing the influence of the American Revolution on the French Revolution

Identifying objectives of different groups participating in the French Revolution

Describing the role of Napoléon Bonaparte as an empire builder

Compare revolutions in Latin America and the Caribbean, including Haiti, Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, Chile, and Mexico.

Identifying the location of countries in Latin America