7th grade · DBQ #6
The Black Death
How did trade turn a disease into a disaster? Students read survivors' accounts, trace the plague on a map, and use population and wage data…
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★ Inquiry DBQ Series · #5
The Silk Roads DBQ
The Silk Roads: did more goods or more ideas travel?
Silk, spices, and paper, or Buddhism and new technology? Students label each piece of evidence as goods or ideas, then argue what mattered more on the Silk Roads.
Grade 7World Civilizations 600–1600Google Slides3 class periods
License: one teacher and their own students.
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What's included
- Teacher presentation (13 slides) with speaker notes
- Full DBQ packet (31 pages): hook, background essay, documents with analysis questions, sourcing organizer, bucketing and outline, writing task, 4-point rubric, teacher guide with answer key and sample essay
- Scaffolded version (15 pages): shorter excerpts, vocabulary support and sentence starters, with its own answer key
The documents
- Marco Polo on the markets of Kinsay
- Xuanzang’s journey for Buddhist texts
- Map of Buddhism’s spread
- How papermaking reached Samarkand
- A merchant’s ledger
- Data: the weight of exchange
Good to know
- Class time
- 3 periods of 45–50 minutes
- Pages
- 59 total
- Format
- Editable Google Slides
- Answer key
- Included
Standards: KAS Grade 7: 7.E.ST.1, 7.E.ST.2, 7.G.HI.2, 7.I.Q, 7.I.UE, 7.I.CC
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