How to learn Grade 4: Social studies

South Dakota academic standards: Social studies, Grade 4

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1. WORLD HISTORY: 60 B.C.E.-C.E. 1300 · The student demonstrates knowledge of the High and Late Middle Ages.

1. The Medieval Church: The enormous power of the medieval Church: monasteries and the daily life of monks and nuns; building great cathedrals; pilgrimage as a religious journey; the Church's influence over everyday life
2. The Crusades: A simplified account of the Crusades: why Europeans travelled to the Holy Land, what they found there, the cultural exchange between Christian Europe and the Islamic world
3. Magna Carta and Limiting Royal Power: King John, the barons' revolt, and the sealing of the Magna Carta in 1215; what the Magna Carta said about limiting the king's power; its lasting importance for democracy and rights

2. WORLD HISTORY: 60 B.C.E.-C.E. 1300 · The student demonstrates knowledge of the Roman Empire.

1. Roman Republic and Empire: Explain how Rome was first governed as a republic — with elected consuls, a powerful Senate, and a distinction between patricians and plebeians — before becoming an empire ruled by emperors like Augustus (who brought peace, the Pax Romana) and Nero, and compare republican government with Athenian direct democracy
2. 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