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Learning about Early Modern Era Empires

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You are a diplomat during the Age of Empire: prepare a briefing about your country. Young scholars take on the challenge using a role-play exercise to examine various empires during the rise of global interconnectedness. Materials include sample presentations, fact sheets, and worksheets to scaffold their investigations.

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CCSS: Designed
Concepts
empires, the british empire, the mughal empire, the ottoman empire, trade, trade routes, the ming dynasty, the qing dynasty, china, the dutch, the netherlands, russia, the persian empire, spain, portugal, west africa, role playing
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Additional Tags
social studies
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Instructional Ideas
  • Use country fact sheets to supplement other class materials on empires
  • Offer the role-play activity to promote research skills
Classroom Considerations
  • First of seven lessons on empires in the Diplomacy Challenge unit 
Pros
  • Activities are easy to scaffold heavily or lightly for different learners
  • Includes all resources but could be adapted to content in regular classroom curriculum
Cons
  • None
Common Core
WHST.9-10.6