Grade08 - Coventry Public Schools

GRADE 8ERA 5 Intensified Hemispheric Interactions, 1000 - 1500 CEContent Standards Performance Standards Benchmarks Instructional Strategies Resources Evidence of Learningcollapse of Mongol ruleand the plague pandemic.Analyze cause and effectrelationships (importance ofindividual).Reconstruct patterns ofsuccession and duration.Describe the Zheng He maritime expeditionsof the early 15 th century and analyze why theMing state initiated, then terminated, thesevoyages.Assess the impact of the conquests of Timur(Tamerlane) on Central Asia, Southwest Asia,and India and evaluate Timurid contributionsto arts and sciences.Analyze the origins and early expansion of theOttoman state up to the capture ofConstantinople.History Standard 6The student understandsthe development ofcomplex societies andstates in North Americaand Mesoamerica.Compare and contrastdiffering values andinstitutions.Interrogate historical data.Formulate historicalquestions.Explain major characteristics of Toltecs,Anasazi, Pueblo, and North American moundbuildingpeoples.Analyze how the Aztec empire arose in the14 th and 15 th centuries and explain majoraspects of Aztec government, society,religion, and culture.Analyze patterns of long-distance tradecentered in Mesoamerica.8