How to learn Grade 8: Social studies
Alabama academic standards: Social studies, Grade 8
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1. World History to 1500 · Describe the role of Alexander the Great in the Hellenistic world.
- Alexander the Great's Empire: Describe how Alexander the Great of Macedon conquered a vast empire stretching from Greece to Egypt to India, spreading Greek language, culture, and ideas across the ancient world — creating a period known as the Hellenistic Age where Greek and Eastern cultures blended
2. WORLD HISTORY TO 1500
- The world contains many cultures, traditions: Understand that the world contains many cultures, traditions, and belief systems, and that learning about others' perspectives enriches our own understanding — developing genuine curiosity about and respect for cultural diversity
3. Medieval Societies · Outline the social, cultural, economic, and religious developments of early medieval Europe.
- Towns & Trade: The growth of medieval towns: markets, guilds, the merchant class; how towns won charters of self-governance; the shift from purely rural to partly urban life
4. Effects of the Fall of Rome · Describe the Byzantine Empire, its institutions, and its legacy.
- Fall of the Western Roman Empire: Describe how the Western Roman Empire gradually declined due to a combination of factors — military pressure from invading peoples, political instability, economic problems, and an overstretched empire — and finally fell in AD 476, while the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire continued for nearly a thousand more years
5. Effects of the Fall of Rome · Analyze the economic, political, and social consequences of the collapse of the Western Roman Empire.
- Fall of the Roman Republic: Trace how Roman political violence — the murder of the Gracchi brothers, civil wars between Marius and Sulla, Caesar's crossing of the Rubicon and assassination on the Ides of March, and the final war between Octavian and Antony — destroyed the Republic and led to one-man rule under Augustus, and debate whether the fall of the Republic was inevitable or a series of choices