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Grade 11, University/College Preparation
D1. Social, Economic, and Political Context: explain the role of various social, economic, and political events and developments in the decline of three or more societies/civilizations, each from a different region and different period prior to 1500, and how these factors affected people living in these societies (FOCUS ON: Historical Significance; Cause and Consequence)
D2. Interrelationships: analyse how interrelationships with other societies and with the environment contributed to the decline of three or more societies/civilizations, each from a different region and different period prior to 1500 (FOCUS ON: Cause and Consequence; Continuity and Change)
D3. CulturalCharacteristicsandIdentity:analyseaspectsofcultureandidentityinthreeormoresocieties/ civilizations in decline, each from a different region and different period prior to 1500 (FOCUS ON: Continuity and Change; Historical Perspective)
THE ONTARIO CURRICULUM, GRADES 11 AND 12 | Canadian and World Studies
SPECIFIC EXPECTATIONS
D1. Social, Economic, and Political Context
FOCUS ON: Historical Significance; Cause and Consequence
By the end of this course, students will:
D1.1 explain the role of various social events and developments in the decline of some societies/ civilizations and how these factors affected people living in these societies (e.g., with reference to famine, epidemics, religious strife, conflict between social classes and/or ethnic groups, overpopulation, loss of culture and/or language)
Sample questions: “Which civilizations were affected by the Black Death? What impact did it have on them? What was life like in societies where the plague was rampant?” “How did overpopulation contribute to the decline of
the Khmer Empire?” “What role did religious conflict play in the decline of the Kingdom of Aksum? What happened to the people displaced from this society by the expansion of Islam?”
D1.2 explain the role of various economic events and developments in the decline of some societies/civilizations and how these factors affected people living in these societies (e.g., with reference to loss of trade routes, inability to
respond to changing economic systems, decrease in agricultural yields, economic competition from other societies, exhaustion of natural resources)
Sample questions: “What role did farming practices play in the decline of the Mesopotamian Empire?” “What role did changing trade routes play in the decline of Petra?” “Why did the decline of Constantinople present economic challenges to Kievan Rus’? What impact did these challenges have on Slavic peoples in this region?”
D1.3 explain the significance of various political events and developments in the decline of some societies/civilizations (e.g., death of a leader, disputed succession, end of a dynasty, revolt or revolution in the heart of the civilization or one
of its component societies, civil war, inability of an empire to protect its territory or control its tributary peoples, conquest by a stronger power)
Sample questions: “How did the struggle for succession in the Songhai Empire contribute to its decline?” “What impact did the Abbasid Revolution have on the Umayyad Caliphate?”
D. CIVILIZATIONS IN DECLINE OVERALL EXPECTATIONS
By the end of this course, students will:
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