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Wealth

Jim Jaeger

A scenario that I posed to my classes: As agrarian areas developed into city-states a single ruler might control a large region of towns and cities and in the process becoming wealthy.

In the 21st century, extravagant displays of wealth remain a means to show great affluence. Is it possible that this will be frowned upon and change in the near future.  If so, why?

We had a few interesting ideas on our end.  Any thoughts from the community at large?

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  • This is really interesting, Jim! Did you pose this question in a class discussion or did your students conduct a bit of research to answer the question. I can totally envision this question working for a lesson where students do research on a particular civilization, where wealth was a big factor. Then, students can answer the question using their opinions, while also supporting their thinking with some evidence. Can even bring some current events into this activity as well. 

  • in reply to Adriane Musacchio

     I used this as a hook at the start of a lesson. I wish that we would have had the time to connect this to a larger study as you posed.  It was more of a one-off.

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