(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.