AC9HH8K09 Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences

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.

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

• 1 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
• 2 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
• 3 outlining the millet system that regarded non-Muslim people as subjects but as not being subject to Muslim law
• 4 explaining the tolerance of the Ottomans towards Christians and Jews
• 5 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
• 6 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
• 7 investigating the remains of Viking settlements such as Dublin (Ireland) and Jorvik (York)
• 8 describing encounters between Hernán Cortés and the Aztecs, as well as the siege of Tenochtitlan
• 9 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)

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