AC9HH8K10
Year 8
Humanities and Social Sciences
AC9HH8K10 | Year 8 History: Empires and expansions
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor the role and achievements of a significant individual and/or group connected to the empire and/or expansion
Strand
Knowledge and understanding
Substrand
Empires and expansions
This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 8 History. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
Mongol Empire
- • Elaboration identifying the similarities in leadership styles and successes of Genghis Khan and Kublai Khan
Ottoman Empire
- • Elaboration comparing historians’ interpretations of the achievements of individuals such as Selim I in establishing the empire and capturing Jerusalem, or Suleiman the Magnificent in expanding the empire to Belgrade in Europe
Vikings
- • Elaboration outlining Erik the Red’s development of Viking settlements in Eastern and Western Greenland in 985 CE
- • Elaboration comparing the artefacts discovered at L’Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland (Canada) with Viking artefacts as possible evidence that the Vikings had journeyed to North America 500 years before Christopher Columbus
The Spanish conquest of the Americas
- • Elaboration explaining the significance of key chronological events in the lives of individuals such as Columbus, Balboa, Cortés, Montezuma II and/or Pizarro
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