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WELCOME to WORLD HISTORY 

This week's topic:

  • Kingdoms of Christianity
    • Byzantine Empire 
    • The decline and break up of the Western Roman Empire
      • Western European Kingdoms

Standards being covered

AZ Content Standards, AZ Common Core, and National Historic Standards
AZ- Arizona Academics Standards
Subject: Social Studies (2006 Final)
Subject/ Grade/ Domain: High School
Strand: Strand 2: World History
Concept: Concept 3: World in Transition
Performance Objective: PO 1. Contrast the fall of Rome with the development of the Byzantine and Arab Empires (e.g., religion, culture, language, governmental structure).
AZ- Common Core State Standards (2012)
Subject: English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects
Grade: Grades 9–10 students:
Content Area: Literacy in History/Social Studies
Strand: Reading Standards
Domain: Key Ideas and Details
Standard:
2. Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of how key events or ideas develop over the course of the text.
Standard:
3. Analyze in detail a series of events described in a text; determine whether earlier events caused later ones or simply preceded them.
Domain: Craft and Structure
Standard:
5. Analyze how a text uses structure to emphasize key points or advance an explanation or analysis.
Content Area: Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects
Strand: Writing Standards
Domain: Production and Distribution of Writing
Standard:
4. Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.

a. Produce clear and coherent functional writing (e.g., formal letters, envelopes, experiments, labels, timelines, graphs/tables, procedures, charts, maps, captions, diagrams, sidebar, flow charts) in which the development, organization and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.

Domain: Range of Writing
Standard:
10. Write routinely over extended time frames (time for reflection and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
USA- National History Standards (US and World)
Standard Area: World History Standards for Grades 5-12
Topic/Era Era 3: Classical Traditions, Major Religions, and Giant Empires, 1000 BCE-300 CE
Standard STANDARD 3: How major religions and large-scale empires arose in the Mediterranean basin, China, and India, 500 BCE-300 CE.
Sub-Standard Standard 3B : The student understands the emergence of Christianity in the context of the Roman Empire.
Indicator 5-12:
Analyze how Christianity spread widely in the Roman Empire. [Analyze multiple causation]
Topic/Era Era 4: Expanding Zones of Exchange and Encounter, 300-1000 CE
Standard STANDARD 1: Imperial crises and their aftermath, 300-700 CE.
Sub-Standard Standard 1A : The student understands the decline of the Roman and Han empires.
Indicator 9-12:
Analyze comparatively the collapse of the western part of the classical Roman Empire and the survival of the eastern part. [Compare and contrast differing sets of ideas]
Indicator 9-12:
Describe the consolidation of the Byzantine state after the breakup of the Roman Empire and assess how Byzantium transmitted ancient traditions and created a new Christian civilization. [Reconstruct patterns of historical succession and duration]
Sub-Standard Standard 1B : The student understands the expansion of Christianity and Buddhism beyond the lands of their origin.
Indicator 7-12:
Analyze the importance of monasticism in the growth of Christianity and Buddhism and the participation of both men and women in monastic life and missionary activity. [Compare and contrast differing values, behaviors, and institutions]
Author: Rosana Cumberland
Last modified: 08-Mar-17 7:05 AM (UMST)