7.16       Understand the basics of Islam (Mohammed, Quran, 5 Pillars). 

 

7.17       How the religion and culture of Islam (as well as the Arabic language) spread. 
 

7.18       Arabic contributions to art, math, science, medicine, philosophy and literature. 

 

7.19       Understand why Mehmed II “the Conqueror” took Constantinople and how he established the Ottoman Empire 
 

7.20       Understand the location and influence of the trade routes of merchants throughout Africa, Asia and Europe 

 

7.22       Understand West African belief systems 

 

7.23       Understand the growth of the kingdoms of Ghana, Mali and Songhai (as well as the significance of trade, culture and learning in Djenne and Timbuktu) 

 

7.24       Understand how trans-Saharan caravans changed the religion and culture in West Africa 

 

7.25       Know how griots spread history and culture in West Africa 

 

7.26       Know about Man$a Mu$a and his pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324. 

 

7.28       Monasteries: their role in preserving knowledge and spreading Catholicism beyond  

              the Alps 

 

7.29       Charlemagne: His influence on Feudalism, The Holy Roman Empire and the        establishment of Christianity 

 

7.30       Feudalism and Manorialism: Their role in the European economy and their  relationship to the growth of towns 

 

7.31       The Battle of Hasting and William the Conqueror: History of England and France 

 

7.32       The relationship in Europe between the Popes and the European kings 

 

7.33       The Magna Carta limits the king’s power... as well as the ideas of Rule of Law and Trial by Jury 

 

7.34       Causes of the Crusades and their notable people: Pope Urban II, Saladin, Richard I 

 

7.35       The impact of the Crusades on Christians, Jews, Muslims and cultures outside of  

Europe 

 

7.36       The economic and social horror of the Black Death and its impact on the global population 

 

7.37       The Black Death’s impact on the merchant class, towns, banking and technology 

 

7.38       The Hundred Years’ War impact on shaping English culture and language, as well as its  

important people (Henry V and Joan of Arc) 

 

7.39       The Reconquista, The Inquisition and the kingdoms in the Iberian Peninsula 

 

7.13- Justinian and his social, political and architectural achievements 

 

7.14- The way that the regional geography of Constantinople helped maintain European culture