AC9HH8K09 Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences

Content descriptor the experiences and perspectives of rulers and of subject peoples, and how the interaction between power and/or authority relates to the empire and/or expansion

Elaborations

Mongol Empire

• • Elaboration describing the reign of Kublai Khan as the first Mongol emperor of China (the Yuan Dynasty), including the processes of government using administrators from different backgrounds and the growth of Chinese culture during this time
• • Elaboration explaining the role of the Mongols in forging connections between Europe and Asia through conquest, settlement and trade, for example the meeting of Marco Polo and the development of trade

Ottoman Empire

• • Elaboration outlining the millet system that regarded non-Muslim people as subjects but as not being subject to Muslim law
• • Elaboration explaining the tolerance of the Ottomans towards Christians and Jews

Vikings

• • Elaboration explaining the attacks on monasteries such as Lindisfarne (793 CE) and Iona (795 CE) and reviewing the written accounts of monks that contributed to the Vikings’ reputation for pillaging and violence
• • Elaboration explaining the survival of a heroic Iron Age society in early Medieval Ireland, as described in the vernacular epics, and its transformation by the spread of Christianity, the influence of the Vikings and the Anglo-Norman conquest
• • Elaboration investigating the remains of Viking settlements such as Dublin (Ireland) and Jorvik (York)

The Spanish conquest of the Americas

• • Elaboration describing encounters between Hernán Cortés and the Aztecs, as well as the siege of Tenochtitlan
• • Elaboration investigating the impact of conquest on the Indigenous populations of the Americas (for example, the introduction of new diseases, horses and gunpowder, and the loss of natural resources) and the wider world (for example, the introduction of crops such as maize, beans, potatoes, tobacco and chocolate from the Americas to Europe and increased wealth in Europe)