Histoire - Géographie - Initiation Économique 5e

Synopsis of Histoire - Géographie - Initiation Économique 5e

Discover your program for this year of 5th grade. History: Students study the main medieval civilizations and the birth of the modern world. Notions about Byzantine civilization. The Arab-Islamic civilization: Islam and its expansion; the sciences and the arts; relations with the West. The evolution of Christian civilization in Western Europe: From the kingdom of the Franks to feudalism. The great rise of the West; birth and construction of France. The great crisis and reconstruction of the 14th and 15th centuries. Europe conquering the world: the great voyages of discovery, the pre-Columbian civilizations and the first colonial empires. Renaissance, Reformation. Presence of the Middle Ages and birth of the modern spirit. Economic initiation: Students study money, its nature, its role and become aware of the problems posed by international exchanges. Geography: Students discover Africa, Asia and Latin America. They understand the problems posed by the development of the Earth's resources for the men of today, that is, the notion of development. Africa: The continent, its settlement, its populations; the political map. The problems of development in Africa: a country of the Maghreb (Algeria), a country of black Africa (Ivory Coast). Asia: The continent. Rice and civilization in monsoon Asia. Development in India, China, Japan. Latin America: The Latin American world: Central America and South America; settlement and populations: the political map. The agrarian question in Latin America. The contrasts of development: Brazil. Development in today's world.