Idaho Social Studies 6-9.WH.5.1

Social StudiesGrades 6–9Global Perspectives

The Standard

Explain the political, economic, religious, or cultural causes of conflicts in various civilizations and their consequences.

Idaho Content Standards: K-12 Social Studies

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students explain why groups fought over land, trade, power, or beliefs. They describe what changed after the fighting and compare conflicts from different civilizations.
What Mastery Looks Like: Given brief accounts of the Punic Wars and the First Crusade, students name supported causes for each and explain a result of each. They show how a cause led to a specific change.
Common Misconceptions: Students may treat the event that started a war as its only cause. They may list deaths or changed borders without explaining which conflict produced them, or assume both sides fought for the same reason.
How to Assess It: Give students this exit ticket: “Rome and Carthage competed for Sicily’s ports. After the First Punic War, Rome controlled Sicily. Identify an economic cause and a result, then explain how they are connected.”

Lesson moves

Give pairs a Mediterranean map and colored tokens to mark Rome, Carthage, Sicily, and the territory Rome gained after the First Punic War.
Read an excerpt from Pope Urban II’s call for the First Crusade, then ask what religious goal he gave and who might gain political power.
Sort cards labeled “rival claims to Sicily,” “control of trade,” “capture of Jerusalem,” and “Crusader states” into causes and results.
Show a map of current Mediterranean shipping routes and ask why Sicily’s location made control of the island valuable.

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