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This resource is aligned with the Australian Curriculum: Civics and Citizenship for Year 8 students. It adopts an inquiry-based learning approach that develops a student’s understanding of Australians’ rights, freedoms and opportunities to participate in Australia’s democracy.

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This resource is aligned to the Australian Curriculum: History for Year 8 students. It adopts an inquiry learning approach that develops students’ skills in investigating the Medieval Europe and the early modern world sub-strand. 

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Explore the intricate social hierarchy of feudal Japan during the shogunate era, characterised by distinct classes and roles.

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Examine Japan under the Shoguns (794-1867), focusing on the feudal system and its societal impacts.

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The arrival of the Portuguese on Japanese shores in 1543 marked the beginning of Japan’s first interactions with the West.

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Throughout human history, societies have grown, matured, and then collapsed, making way for new innovations, people and philosophies to begin the cycle again, building on what came before. The history of Medieval Europe is no different: it has its roots in the collapse of the western Roman Empire in 456 CE.

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As time progressed, the number of people who could read did begin to increase, as some countries began to increase the emphasis on educating their people to basic levels.

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Australia is a signatory of various international treaties and laws. Treaties, conventions, protocols and covenants are agreements between nation states on how best to respond to international issues.

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The first Australian cricket team to tour overseas was an Aboriginal one.

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When European explorers began to enter the Pacific they were astounded by its vast extent and fact that most of the islands were already inhabited.

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Looking at Polynesia on a world map can be deceiving, as the vast majority of the Polynesian islands appear as near-identical green specks scattered across vast oceanic areas.

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For most of human history beyond living memory, the main way we know what life was like during the Medieval period is from documentary evidence that remains available to us.