Unit four benchmarks
- SS.912.G.4.9 Use political maps to describe the change in boundaries and governments within continents over time.
- SS.912.W.2.1 Locate the extent of Byzantine territory at the height of the empire.
- SS.912.W.3.3 Determine the causes, effects, and extent of Islamic military expansion through Central Asia, North Africa, and the Iberian Peninsula.
- SS.912.W.2.2 Describe the impact of Constantine the Great's establishment of the "New Rome" (Constantinople) and his recognition of Christianity as a legal religion.
- SS.912.W.2.3 Analyze the extent to which the Byzantine Empire was a continuation of the old Roman Empire and in what ways it was a departure.
- SS.912.W.2.4 Identify key figures associated with the Byzantine Empire.
- SS.912.W.2.5 Explain the contributions of the Byzantine Empire.
- SS.912.W.2.6 Describe the causes and effects of the Iconoclast controversy of the 8th and 9th centuries and the 11th century Christian schism between the churches of Constantinople and Rome.
- SS.912.W.2.7 Analyze causes (Justinian's Plague, ongoing attacks from the "barbarians," the Crusades, and internal political turmoil) of the decline of the Byzantine Empire.
- SS.912.W.2.8 Describe the rise of the Ottoman Turks, the conquest of Constantinople in 1453, and the subsequent growth of the Ottoman empire under the sultanate including Mehmet the Conqueror and Suleiman the Magnificent.
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