Byzantium: Rome’s Geographic and Political Afterlife: Social Studies Unit 1, Grade 7 (Letters & Devotion)

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Byzantium: Rome’s Geographic and Political Afterlife is Unit 1 of World Geography and the Medieval World, 500-1500 CE (Grade 7), the Letters & Devotion Social Studies course, complete in one printable PDF: 8 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 53 pages.

• Constantinople’s chokepoint location between the Bosporus Strait and the Sea of Marmara
• The dual effect of chokepoint geography on trade wealth and vulnerability to invasion
• Map types: physical, political, and thematic/choropleth maps
• Sourcing moves: author, purpose, audience, and what is missing from a historical account
• Justinian’s Code as a reorganization, not replacement, of Roman legal tradition
• The fusion of religious and political authority in the Byzantine emperor’s role
• The relative weight of geographic versus political explanations for Constantinople’s survival
• Chokepoint geography as a transferable spatial concept beyond Constantinople

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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