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Essential Question:

How do human systems restructure themselves after catastrophe?

Portrait of a Graduate:

Communication

Collaboration

Critical Thinking

Inquiry Question:

How did societal collapse affect the lives of people in different instances?

2. Inquiry Question:

How and why did the interconnections among human societies grow and shrink at different times, and how did these changes affect both human lives and the environment?

3. Inquiry Question:

In what ways can the label of the medieval “Dark Ages” be both useful and inaccurate?

Student Outcomes:

Students will be able to evaluate and critique the historical narrative of the rise and fall of societies.

2. Student Outcomes:

Students will be able to evaluate how new innovations in technology and transportation affected trade networks, human communities and belief systems.

3. Student Outcomes:

Students will be able to critique the narrative of the “Dark Ages” by analyzing and using evidence from multiple sources to support historical thinking.

Skills Demonstrated:

Reading for Content.
Image/Video Analysis.
Map Reading.
Examine Varying Perspectives.
Making Judgements and Predictions.

Standards:

SS:GE:12:2.5: Recognize that places and regions serve as symbols for individuals and societies.
SS:WH:12:1.5: Evaluate the influence of religion on political systems.
SS:WH:12:2.1: Describe how traders and merchants have been instrumental in spreading ideas and beliefs to new areas.
SS:WH:12:3.1: Describe how people’s differences in religion have often led to conflict in regions of the world.
SS:WH:12:4.1: Analyze various systems of distributing wealth.
SS:WH:12:5.4: Examine gender roles in societies.

Resources:

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