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Grade 11, University/College Preparation
B1. Early Societies: analyse the evolution of early societies in various parts of the world, including factors that were necessary for their development (FOCUS ON: Cause and Consequence; Continuity and Change)
B2. Social, Economic, and Political Context: analyse key social, economic, and political structures and/or developments in three or more early societies and emerging cradles of civilization, each from a different region and a different period prior to 1500, and explain their impact on people’s lives (FOCUS ON: Historical Significance; Historical Perspective)
B3. Cooperation, Conflict, and Rising Civilizations: analyse, with reference to specific early societies and emerging cradles of civilization, each from a different region and a different period prior to 1500, how interactions within and between societies contributed to the development of civilizations (FOCUS ON: Historical Significance; Continuity and Change)
THE ONTARIO CURRICULUM, GRADES 11 AND 12 | Canadian and World Studies
SPECIFIC EXPECTATIONS
B1. Early Societies
FOCUS ON: Cause and Consequence; Continuity and Change
By the end of this course, students will:
B1.1 describe the evolution of some early societies from their beginnings as hunter-gatherer societies, and explain some of the developments that enabled them to change (e.g., the domestica- tion of fire, the Agricultural Revolution, technological developments, the Urban Revolution, division of labour, development of social hierarchies, trade with other societies)
Sample questions: “What do cave paintings at Lascaux and Chauvet reveal about early societies in that region?” “What do we know about the division of labour between men and women in early societies? How did this and other divisions of labour contribute to the development of early societies?”
B1.2 explain how various factors contributed to differences in the development of early societies (e.g., climate, physical region, available space, fertility of land, scarcity or abundance of local resources, political structures and decisions, religion/
spirituality, degree of isolation from or proximity to other societies, external influences, types of trade, level of urbanization)
Sample questions: “What are some geographic/ environmental factors that affected the develop- ment of early societies? What are some ways
in which geographic differences contributed to differences among societies?” “How did different local resources help shape the development of various First Nations in the precontact period?” “Why might an inward-looking or physically isolated society have developed differently than a society that had greater contact with
the outside world?”
B1.3 identify the cradles of civilization around
the world, and analyse them to determine various elements that are critical to the rise of
a civilization (e.g., favourable geographic location, effective political and social structures, common religious/spiritual practices, abundant food and natural resources)
Sample questions: “If you examine the regions conventionally regarded as having been the cradles of civilization, what common elements do you find? Which of these elements do you think were fundamental to the rise of these civilizations? Why? Which element do you think was the most important? Why?”
B. EARLY SOCIETIES AND RISING CIVILIZATIONS
OVERALL EXPECTATIONS
By the end of this course, students will:
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