AC9HH8K11
Year 8
Humanities and Social Sciences
AC9HH8K11 | Year 8 History: Empires and expansions
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor interpretations about the society and events, and/or individuals and/or groups 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 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
Ottoman Empire
- • Elaboration 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
Vikings
- • Elaboration 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
The Spanish conquest of the Americas
- • Elaboration 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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