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Curricular Competency
Determine which causes most influenced particular decisions, actions, or events, and assess their short-and long-term consequences (cause and consequence)
Elaboration
- Sample activity:
- Analyze whether an event was caused by underlying systemic factors (e.g., social unrest, economic decline) or by an unpredictable event (e.g., disease, natural disaster).
- Key questions:
- How did the Black Death cause the end of feudalism and the Middle Ages in Europe?
- What would have been the impacts if the indigenous peoples of the Americas had been immune to smallpox and other diseases?
- What kinds of negative consequences can result from a positive event, and what kinds of positive consequences can result from a negative event (e.g., the role of the Black Death in breaking down the feudal system; ethnic violence resulting from colonial independence)?
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Determine which causes most influenced particular decisions, actions, or events, and assess their short-and long-term consequences