TEKS: Chapter 113. Social Studies See All Teacher Resources

113.42.c.4

(4) History. The student understands how, after the collapse of classical empires, new political, economic, and social systems evolved and expanded from 600 to 1450. The student is expected to:

  • (A) explain the development of Christianity as a unifying social and political factor in medieval Europe and the Byzantine Empire;
  • (B) explain the characteristics of Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy;
  • (C) describe the major characteristics of and the factors contributing to the development of the political/social system of feudalism and the economic system of manorialism;
  • (D) explain the political, economic, and social impact of Islam on Europe, Asia, and Africa;
  • (E) describe the interactions among Muslim, Christian, and Jewish societies in Europe, Asia, and North Africa;
  • (F) describe the interactions between Muslim and Hindu societies in South Asia;
  • (G) explain how the Crusades, the Black Death, the Hundred Years' War, and the Great Schism contributed to the end of medieval Europe;
  • (H) summarize the major political, economic, and cultural developments in Tang and Song China and their impact on Eastern Asia;
  • (I) explain the development of the slave trade;
  • (J) analyze how the Silk Road and the African gold-salt trade facilitated the spread of ideas and trade; and
  • (K) summarize the changes resulting from the Mongol invasions of Russia, China, and the Islamic world.