Social Studies 8
Alberta · Grade 8 · Social Studies — the complete curriculum-aligned outline, taught skill by skill by MapleMind's AI tutor.
Unit 1: From Isolation to Adaptation: Japan
How a society’s worldview shapes its choices — Japan’s deliberate isolation during the Edo period, the role of geography and the shogun’s feudal order, and Japan’s rapid transformation during the Meiji period.
- How and why Japan isolated itself
- Geography and Japan’s worldview
- The shogun and the social order
- Why Japan changed course
- From feudal to modern
Unit 2: Origins of a Western Worldview: Renaissance Europe
The rebirth of ideas in western Europe — how exchange, trade and city-states, a new humanist worldview, and the outward-looking Age of Discovery forged the worldview that came to define the Western world.
- What the Renaissance was
- Trade and the city-states
- Thinkers and the humanist worldview
- The Age of Discovery and the expansionist worldview
Unit 3: Worldviews in Conflict: The Spanish and the Aztecs
What happens when worldviews collide — the Aztec worldview before contact, Spain’s drive for empire, and how technology, disease and divergent worldviews produced Spanish dominance.
- The Aztec worldview
- Spain’s drive for empire
- Why the Spanish prevailed
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