American Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.1
Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.3
Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.4
Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words or phrases in a text relevant to a grade 4 topic or subject area.

Ontario Curriculum:
A1.1 compare social organization (e.g., social classes, general political structure, inherited privilege, the status of women) in . . . early societies

A3.2 demonstrate the ability to extract information on daily life in a few early societies, . . . from visual evidence (e.g., art works such as paintings, sculptures, carvings, masks, mosaics, hide paintings, beadwork, quillwork, soapstone carvings; clothing; ceremonial dress; regalia; petroglyphs; monuments; rock/earth mounds; artefacts such as tools, household utensils, pottery, religious articles, weapons)

A3.3 describe significant aspects of daily life in . . . early societies

A3.6 identify and describe some of the major scientific and technological developments in the ancient and medieval world

A3.9 describe some key reasons why different groups in a few early societies, . . . cooperated or came into conflict at different
times (e.g., to explore; to expand territory; to make decisions, govern, and administer; to promote trade; to wage war or make peace; to acquire wealth, power, and control; to rebel; to spread religious beliefs and/or enforce the power of particular religious institutions; to protect spiritual beliefs, ceremonies and other cultural practices, and traditional lands)