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How to Read a DBQ
Teach every skill students need before their first DBQ, then let them try those skills on a short Viking Age mini-DBQ. This free lesson launches…
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Grades 6–8 · Made in Kentucky, for Kentucky
Students think like historians.
Full curriculum resources & inquiry-based DBQs
Real sources, real questions and full and scaffolded versions so every student can join in. All in editable Google Slides.
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Featured series · 7th grade
Inquiry DBQ Series: World Civilizations 600–1600
Each DBQ asks one big question, gives students real documents to weigh and ends with an evidence-based argument. Every DBQ uses the same sourcing steps, evidence buckets and 4-point rubric, so students get faster with each one.
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- 1Geography of Great CitiesConstantinople, Baghdad & Tenochtitlan
- 2Order or Justice?Justinian's Code, Islamic law & Magna Carta
- 3The CrusadesWho gained the most? Urban II, Saladin & Venice
- 4Mansa Musa's MaliTrans-Saharan gold-salt trade
- 5The Silk RoadsGoods or ideas? Trade, Buddhism & papermaking
- 6The Black DeathHow trade turned a disease into a disaster
- 7The MongolsDestroyers or connectors? Pax Mongolica
- 8China's Civil Service ExamsWas the system fair? Confucius & merit
- 9TenochtitlanHow the Aztecs built a city on a lake
- 10The IncaRunning an empire without writing · coming soon
- 11The Printing PressGutenberg, the Reformation & movable type · coming soon
- 12Galileo on TrialScientific Revolution: science vs. authority · coming soon
- 13Conquest of the Aztec EmpireCortés, allies & smallpox · coming soon
- 14The Columbian ExchangeWho won and who lost? · coming soon
- 15The Valladolid DebateLas Casas vs. Sepúlveda · coming soon
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7th grade · DBQ #1
Geography of Great Cities
Constantinople, Baghdad and Tenochtitlan. Full and scaffolded versions plus a teacher presentation, in Google Slides.
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7th grade · DBQ #2
Order or Justice?
Trial by boiling water, a qadi's court, or a written law? Students compare medieval law codes to judge how well each created order, delivered…
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7th grade · DBQ #3
The Crusades
Knights, merchants, emperors, and sultans all had something to win in the Crusades. Students weigh Christian, Byzantine, and Muslim sources, a…
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7th grade · DBQ #4
Mansa Musa's Mali
What made Mali so rich and powerful? Students weigh Al-Umari, Ibn Battuta, the Catalan Atlas, and trade maps to explain the wealth behind Mansa…
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7th grade · DBQ #5
The Silk Roads
Silk, spices, and paper, or Buddhism and new technology? Students label each piece of evidence as goods or ideas, then argue what mattered more on…
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7th grade · DBQ #6
The Black Death
How did trade turn a disease into a disaster? Students read survivors' accounts, trace the plague on a map, and use population and wage data…
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7th grade · DBQ #7
The Mongols
Were the Mongols destroyers or connectors? Students compare survivors of the conquests with travelers who crossed the empire safely, then take a…
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7th grade · DBQ #8
China's Civil Service Exams
Could anyone in imperial China win a government job by passing a test? Students weigh who passed, who was shut out, and what Confucius taught to…
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7th grade · DBQ #9
Tenochtitlan
How do you build a city of 200,000 people on a lake? Students solve the engineering problem themselves, then test their ideas against chinampas,…
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7th grade · Series
World Civilizations 600–1600
The full Inquiry DBQ Series in one bundle.
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Kentucky History DBQs
Document-based inquiries on Kentucky history for 8th grade.
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U.S. History DBQs
Document-based inquiries on U.S. history for 8th grade.
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Routines and tools for running a calm, organized social studies classroom.
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The 20-DBQ Bundle
Kentucky History + U.S. History
Both 8th grade series together, for less than buying them one at a time.
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I've taught for 17 years and currently teach 7th grade social studies in Kentucky. Every resource here is written for the Kentucky Academic Standards and tested with real students.
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