1. Seven Great Cities
CHY4U
Unit 1
Activity

2. Course/Unit Questions
How did we get here?
What were they thinking?
Let’s start out by looking at 7 places around the world in 1450.

3. Great Cities
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4. What to Think About for Greatness
Roles, groups, contributions
How do beliefs shape culture?
What is life like for women?
Is education valued?
Economics
What is the biggest economic strength/problem?
What are living standards like? For all?

5. Political Sci/Tech Who has power?
How does architecture reflect values?
What scientific or technological innovations originated here?

6. Seven Cities - Stations
Divide into 7 groups.
Start with your first city.
Take notes in the form of annotations
Markings
Notes to self
HTC connections
Greatness aspects
Annotation is NOT just highlighting.

7. Seven Cities Follow-Up
Identify one key example of differing historical perspectives.
Identify one example of a turning point.
Identify an important continuity.
Identify an individual or group who progressed.
Identify an individual or group who declined.
Identify 2 key links between regions.
Identify a key technological advance.

8. Rankings
Develop criteria for greatness (now that you’ve seen seven potentially great cities).
Criteria = a set of standards against which you will assemble evidence and draw conclusions.

9. HTC Journal
Write down your ranking of the 7 cities (based on your criteria).
Explain/justify your #1 and # __ ranking using criteria. Make sure to explain, not just say/mention/assume.
Remember that criteria is not just a category. For example, you shouldn’t say you ranked a city number one because it had the best economy. That is very vague. You might say that it had a high level of wealth – that would be more specific.