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6.4.CCSC 6th Grade World Civilizations
From Napoleon to a New Map of the World
Lesson 5.23 · Continuities and Changes Skill Practice, Standard 6.4.CC
From one general's conquests to independence movements on two continents, nationalism grew, spread, and reshaped the map of the world in less than a century. Today you trace that progression formally.
Learning Targets and Success Criteria
Build the vocabulary and evidence needed to meet standard 6.4.CC.
What I will learn
- I can trace the progression of nationalism from Napoleon's conquests through Latin American independence.
- I can identify at least one continuity in how nationalism spread across this period.
- I can identify at least one change in how nationalism was expressed across this period.
- I can explain why nationalism became one of the defining forces of the 19th century.
What success looks like
- I accurately trace nationalism's progression using at least three specific events from my timeline.
- I identify an accurate continuity with specific evidence.
- I identify an accurate change with specific evidence.
- My exit ticket explains why nationalism became a defining force of the 19th century.
Analyze the progression of nationalism in the 19th century through the early 20th century.
Pulling twenty-four lessons into one argument.
These terms will be used throughout the mini-lesson, evidence lab, hands-on activity, journal, and exit challenge.
Progression
A gradual development or movement from one stage to another over time.
Defining Force
An idea or movement powerful enough to shape the major events of an entire era.
Colonial Rule
Government of a territory and its people by a foreign power, typically for that power's economic benefit.
Momentum
The tendency of a movement or process to keep growing in strength once it has begun.
Where this shows up in the real world.
History is not just something that happened. It is training for how you will read evidence, weigh sources, and make decisions in a career.
Tracing Century-Long Trends
Curriculum designers, like the team behind this unit, must trace long trends like nationalism across many countries and decades into one coherent story.
Forecasting Nationalist Movements
Political risk analysts today study historical patterns of nationalism to help forecast where similar movements might arise in the future.
A Century-Long Chain Reaction
Napoleon's conquests, the Congress of Vienna's suppression, the rise of European nationalism, and Latin America's independence movements can look like four separate stories. Trace them closely, and they form one chain reaction.
Across the entire period, resistance to foreign or distant rule consistently produced a stronger sense of national identity. Napoleon's conquered territories, the regions the Concert of Europe tried to control, and Spain's American colonies all responded to outside domination by developing a sharper sense of their own shared identity and right to self-determination.
The specific form nationalism took shifted across the period: it began as resistance to occupation against Napoleon, shifted to resistance to political suppression against the Concert of Europe, and by mid-century had grown into full independence movements on an entirely different continent, each stage building momentum on the one before it.
By the end of this progression, nationalism had proven itself one of the defining forces of the 19th century, powerful enough to unite diverse peoples against empires, redraw maps, and create entirely new nations, setting the stage for the imperialism and global conflicts of the century still to come.
Adapted from Studio Aletheia's World Builders Academy curriculum library, synthesizing 19th-century history resources on the global progression of nationalism.
Materials for the continuities and changes lab.
- A. Your write your nationalism synthesis paragraph materials, provided
- B. Highlighters, 2 colors minimum
- C. Notebook or chart paper
- D. A pencil for annotating
- E. Your Evidence Log for this unit
Every session this unit: identify the evidence, cite where it came from, connect it to the day's vocabulary, write a one-paragraph explanation.
Practice the Continuities and Changes Skill
Practice identifying continuities and changes across the full progression of nationalism.
Write Your Nationalism Synthesis Paragraph
Pull together your entire Nationalism timeline into one evidence-based synthesis paragraph.
Evidence Log
Accountability Checklist
Exit Challenge
In a short paragraph, trace the progression of nationalism from Napoleon's conquests through Latin American independence, citing specific evidence.
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