★ Inquiry DBQ Series · #1
Geography of Great Cities DBQ
How did geography shape three great cities?
Why did three of history's greatest cities rise where they did? Students study maps and eyewitness sources to argue how site and situation shaped Constantinople, Baghdad, and Tenochtitlan.
Grade 7World Civilizations 600–1600Google Slides3 class periods
License: one teacher and their own students.
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What's included
- Teacher presentation (11 slides) with speaker notes
- Full DBQ packet (25 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 (9 pages): shorter excerpts, vocabulary support and sentence starters, with its own answer key
The documents
- Maps of each city's site
- Procopius on Constantinople
- Baghdad, the Round City
- Bernal DÃaz on Tenochtitlan
- Map of Lake Texcoco
- City size data table
Good to know
- Class time
- 3 periods of 45–50 minutes
- Pages
- 45 total
- Format
- Editable Google Slides
- Answer key
- Included
Standards: KAS Grade 7: 7.G.HE.1, 7.G.GR.1, 7.G.GR.2, 7.I.Q.1–3, 7.I.UE.1–3, 7.I.CC.1–5