5° Social Studies-Marden 24-25

Glue these into your notebook after #65.

If/when you finish #71, begin this assignment.  Complete the printed chart looking for things from the history of these groups that you can identify were sustainable choices or not.  Use TCI textbook pages 215-231 (West Africa), and 383-399 (Aztec) for evidence.  You can talk to your table mates to share ideas.  Fill out separate Sustainability Score cards for each society (one for West Africa and one for the Aztec).  These will go into your notebook.Remember that evidence means specific historical examples that show something happening.  For example, I could look at the Aztec human sacrifice and say that they thought it was sustainable for socio-cultural reasons, believing that it was needed to make the sun continue to rise each day, but that it wasn’t socio-culturally or politically sustainable because it killed lots of people which angered them and made them want to rebel against the Aztec.If you finish that, find #68 Current Events.  Pick a news source and find an article that has some connection to something we’ve studied.  Using that article, complete the Google Form.

What historical forces shaped modern West Africa since the Middle Ages?

Key terms:
- Cause & Consequence (cause and effect)
- Continuity & Change (things that have stayed the same over time, and things that have changed)
- Colonialism

Background:
During the Middle Ages, West African kingdoms & empires were some of the wealthiest and most powerful in the world.  Today, this region is ranked as low, to lower-middle income compared to other nations world-wide, according to the World Bank.  How did this resource rich region end up this way?