Achievement objective 8.2
Students will gain knowledge, skills, and experience to:
- understand how trends over time reflect social, economic, and political forces.
Indicators
- Explains how social, cultural, economic, and political forces produce trends over time.
- Analyses social, cultural, economic, and political forces.
- Identifies and explains the influence of trends over time.
- Illustrates how trends have changed over time.
Possible context elaborations
- The struggle to maintain a single, unified, national church in early modern Europe.
- The emergence of Māori religious movements in New Zealand.
- The persecution of religious non-conformists and its effect on people’s lives, for example, emigration, loss of civil rights, or conversion.
- The growth of economic independence of Western women.
- The impact of Polynesian migration on New Zealand and the Pacific Islands.
- The emergence of the global culture and its consequences for cultural and linguistic identities.
- The persistence of neo-Nazism.
- The Ming dynasty’s 15th century move from ‘globalisation’ to ‘isolation’.
- The effect of World War I and World War II on the lives of Western women.
- The impact of the abolition of slavery on former slave economies.
- A comparison of the impact of the English Civil War and of World War I on life in the British Isles.
Last updated August 24, 2012
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