Historical Worldviews Examined Grade 8 - Aligned to Alberta Curriculum

Aligned to Alberta Curriculum, this resource has been designed to give students an understanding and appreciation of the issues related to contact between societies with differing worldviews. Inquiry and examination into the elements of these worldviews will give students the chance to reflect upon their own worldviews and consider how their past has influenced their present. Examples of worldviews will come from Japan, Renaissance Europe, and the early Spanish explorations of Aztec societies. 219 pages.

Divided into three parts:

8.1 From Isolation to Adaptation: Japan Students will demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of the ways in which beliefs, values, and knowledge shape worldviews and contribute to a society’s isolation or adaptation, using Japan as a key example.
- Vocabulary and Pronunciation Sheet
- Cultural Isolation During the Edo Period
- The Edo Period – Government, Worldview, Citizenship and Identity
- The Meiji Period – Rapid Adaptation in a Changing World
- The Meiji Period – Consequences of Rapid Change to Citizenship and Identity
- Answer Key

8.2 Origins of a Western Worldview: Renaissance Europe
Students will demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of how the exchange of ideas and knowledge contributed to shaping the worldview of the Western world, using Renaissance Europe as a key example.
- Vocabulary and Pronunciation Sheet
- Starting a Fire in Europe – The Sparks of the Renaissance
- Renaissance Europe – The Emergence of Powerful City-States and Influential Thinkers
- Spreading the Fire of Renaissance Europe – Discovery, Exploration, Expansion and Imperialism
- Answer Key

8.3 Worldviews in Conflict: The Spanish and the Aztecs
Students will demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of how intercultural contact affects the worldviews of societies, using the meeting of Spanish and Aztec societies as a key example.
- Vocabulary and Pronunciation Sheet
- The Spanish and the Aztecs – Before Intercultural Contact
- Meeting, Miscommunication, Conflict, Conquest – The Spanish and the Aztecs
- The Spanish and the Aztecs – Have We Learned to Control Expansionism, Imperialism, and Domination
- Answer Key


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