History / Year 8 / Historical Knowledge and Understanding

Curriculum content descriptions

The role of expanding trade between Europe and Asia in the Black Death, including the origin and spread of the disease (ACDSEH069)

Elaborations
  • mapping the spread of the Black Death (Asia, Africa, Europe) in the fourteenth century CE
General capabilities
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • Intercultural understanding Intercultural understanding
Cross-curriculum priorities
ScOT terms

International trade,  Late Middle Ages,  Bubonic plague,  Disease transmission

Refine by resource type

Refine by year level


Refine by learning area


Refine by topic

Related topic
Image

'Vaccination Day in Port Mackay!', 1877

This black-and-white pen-and-ink sketch depicts vaccinations against smallpox in Mackay, Queensland, in 1877. In the sketch the local public health officer, who appears to be shouting, wields a large knife and is about to vaccinate a fearful child on his lap. The child's mother holds the child's arm while it screams. A ...