Land Empires and Exchange Networks, c. 1200-1450: Social Studies Unit 1, Grade 10 (Letters & Devotion)

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Land Empires and Exchange Networks, c. 1200-1450 is Unit 1 of Patterns of Power: A World History Survey, c. 1200-Present (Part 1) (Grade 10), the Letters & Devotion Social Studies course, complete in one printable PDF: 8 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 72 pages.

• The geographic routes and characteristic goods of the Silk Roads, Indian Ocean, and Trans-Saharan trade networks
• The tribute system as a mechanism of imperial control
• Differing contemporary accounts of Mongol governance
• Categories of diffusion (cultural, technological, pandemic) along the same trade infrastructure
• The causal link between trade-network density and pandemic spread rate
• The general principle that exchange networks produce unintended distributional effects
• The net destructive-versus-connective effect of Mongol conquest on Afro-Eurasian trade
• The definition of empire and named examples from the period

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

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