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History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 6

Ancient Asian Societies and Exchange

Learners study how Chinese rulers claimed the right to rule and how the Qin and Han unified a vast land, compare Confucian, Daoist and Legalist answers to the question of how to keep order, and meet the Maurya and Gupta empires of India. They finish on the Silk Roads, tracing how goods, beliefs and technologies moved across Asia.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 100 minutes
  • Ancient Asia and exchange check: 9 questions
  • Ways to answer: fill in the blanks, choose an answer, estimate, highlight a text, pick map regions and match pairs
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What learners will discover

  • Explain the Mandate of Heaven and how the Qin and Han dynasties unified and governed China.
  • Compare Confucian, Daoist and Legalist ideas about order, using a short excerpt from the Analects as evidence.
  • Describe the Maurya and Gupta empires of India, including Ashoka's policies and Gupta-era achievements.
  • Explain how the Silk Roads moved goods, ideas, technologies and diseases, and argue how exchange changed societies.

Lessons

  1. The Mandate of Heaven and a unified China 7 steps4 practiceabout 25 min
  2. Three answers to one question 7 steps3 practiceabout 25 min
  3. India's Maurya and Gupta empires 6 steps4 practiceabout 25 min
  4. The Silk Roads: a web of exchange 6 steps4 practiceabout 25 min
  5. Ancient Asia and exchange check 9 questions at the end

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