NY Social Studies 10.1a
The Standard
Powerful Eurasian states and empires faced and responded to challenges ca. 1750.
New York State K–12 Social Studies Framework
Key Idea 10.1
THE WORLD in 1750: The world in 1750 was marked by powerful Eurasian states and empires, coastal African kingdoms, and growing European maritime empires. The interactions of these states, empires, and kingdoms disrupted regional trade networks and influenced the development of new global trade networks.
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students compare Mughal and Ottoman policies on religious and ethnic groups, government, and trade. They explain how Tokugawa rulers centralized Japan. They compare Tokugawa control of daimyo and Edo with Bourbon control of nobles and Paris or Versailles.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students can give an accurate similarity and difference for each comparison using specific evidence. They can explain how alternate attendance, capitals, court life, and bureaucracies helped rulers manage challenges and strengthen control.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may describe Ottoman and Mughal tolerance as modern religious equality. They often assume Tokugawa isolation ended all foreign trade. They may confuse daimyo with bureaucrats or claim Edo and Versailles served exactly the same purpose.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Choose one comparison pair. State one similarity, one difference, and how one policy helped a ruler manage diversity, trade, or elite power around 1750.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give groups twelve evidence cards to sort by empire, then by tolerance, government, commerce, elite control, and bureaucracy.
Students write a claim naming which ruler controlled elites more effectively, then support it with two facts about Tokugawa or Bourbon policies.
Play a matching relay where teams pair policies, such as alternate attendance or Versailles residence, with the ruler's goal and affected group.
Compare maps of Edo and Versailles with a modern capital, then mark how each layout concentrates officials, elites, and political authority.
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