AC9HH8K11
Year 8
Humanities and Social Sciences
AC9HH8K11 – Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences: Empires and expansions
Strand
Knowledge and understanding
Substrand
Empires and expansions
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.
Content Description
interpretations about the society and events, and/or individuals and/or groups connected to the empire and/or expansion
Elaborations
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1
discussing the validity of various death tolls linked to Mongol expansion, such as 1,000,000 people in Nishapur and 60 million people in China, and using primary sources and historians’ interpretations
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2
describing the contrasting perspectives on the Fall of Constantinople (1453), including prophecies and legends, and how these shaped historians’ interpretations of the experiences of people living at the time
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3
analysing the extent to which historians’ interpretations are corroborated with the oral histories contained in Icelandic sagas, such as about Erik the Red founding Greenland
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4
analysing the extent to which historians’ interpretations that the Spanish conquest can be attributed to the pursuit of “Gold, God and Glory” differ
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