AC9HH8K04 – Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences: Medieval Europe and the early modern world

This Content Descriptor from Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

Elaborations

• • explaining the reasons for different punishments for different groups of people, such as trial by combat as a privilege granted to the nobility and ducking stools as a punishment for women, and the use of punishment as a deterrent
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  describing the impact of the Black Death on daily life using primary sources such as Matteo Villani’s diary, Boccaccio’s Decameron, Fordun’s Chronicle of the Scottish Nation and Ibn Khaldun’s recollection of the impact of the plague

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  analysing how rulers responded to demands from the lower classes to improve their working conditions and lives following the plague, using sources such as King Edward III’s law Statute of Labourers

• • analysing primary sources to understand the interactions between the rulers of Florence, Venice, Naples and/or the Papal States
• • explaining the differing levels of political involvement in city-states such as the guilds in Florence and Libro d’Oro in Venice
• • examining the change in the role and power of monarchies in the political systems of Western Europe, for example, decline of "absolutism", development of parliaments, and new ideas relating to nationalism
• • investigating the changes and continuities in the political power of the bourgeoise and peasant classes with the growth of cities and increased urbanisation, and the movement of peoples

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard: