Oklahoma Social Studies AWH.C.12.6

AWH.C.12.6 is a cluster heading. These are the individual standards under it.

• AWH.C.12.6.A

  Identify major developments in banking, manufacturing at scale, and international trade.

• AWH.C.12.6.B

  Describe the impact of innovations, such as the compass, gunpowder, and Wootz steel.

01

What Students Need to Do

Students explain how banking, large workshops, and long-distance trade changed medieval societies. They trace how the compass, gunpowder, and Wootz steel affected travel, warfare, or commerce.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

Students explain how bills of exchange helped merchants pay across distances and how textile workshops filled orders for distant buyers. They link the compass to sea travel and gunpowder to siege warfare. They identify Wootz steel as a prized product made in South Asia and traded abroad.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may picture medieval production as modern factory work rather than work in workshops and households. They may think merchants carried coins for every purchase or that the compass, gunpowder, and Wootz steel were invented in Europe.

04

How to Assess It

Exit ticket: A textile workshop sells cloth overseas. Explain how large orders, a bill of exchange, and a compass could help the business, then name one effect of gunpowder or Wootz steel.

1. 01

   Give pairs a map, string, and cards for South Asian steel, Chinese gunpowder, European textiles, and bills of exchange; trace their movement and effects.

2. 02

   Ask: How might a bill of exchange and a compass change a merchant's trip from Venice to Alexandria? Name one risk each reduces.

3. 03

   Play a matching game: pair compass, gunpowder, Wootz steel, and bills of exchange with navigation, siege warfare, traded blades, and payment.

4. 04

   Show a credit card receipt; ask students how paying without carrying coins compares with a merchant's bill of exchange.

• AWH.C.9.5.A

  Explain the structure of feudal society and its economic, political, and social effects, including the differing orders of medieval society.

• 8.C.10

  Analyze the social and economic transformations of the early nineteenth century.

• MWH.C.2

  Analyze patterns of social, economic, political, and cultural changes during the Late Middle Ages to the Age of Exploration.

• AWH.C.10.5

  Examine religious, intellectual, cultural, technological, and economic developments in medieval Europe from the Norman Conquest to 1300.