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Strand A: Global Settlement: Patterns and Sustainability
How the physical environment and human settlement shape each other, and what settlement means for the environment (expectations A1, A2, A3).
- Why was the city placed there? How the physical environment, here a river in flood, can shape where people settle (A1.1, A3.2). Place
- How did people change the land? How settlement has changed land and water, seen through a dug waterway and a garrison town (A3.5). Place
- Who may use the land? Land-use questions and how different groups answered them, seen through conquered farmland and the space of a city's markets (A3.3). StoryInvention
- When a dam fails How a process of the physical environment can change where people can live, seen through one past case (A1.2). StoryQur'an
Strand B: Global Inequalities: Economic Development and Quality of Life
Why quality of life and economic development differ around the world, and what is done about it (expectations B1, B2, B3).
- Who works for others' wellbeing? Groups and institutions that work to improve people's lives, and what each one focuses on, seen through two historical cases (B3.5). InventionPlace
- Measuring the river for the farm A river's flood measured to guide irrigation policy, seen through the Nilometer; whether this is a factor in economic development is for the class to judge (B3.8). Object