3.2 Empires: Administrations

3.2 Empires: Administrations

By Isiah Jones

​Essential Question: How did rulers in land-based empires legitimize and consolidate their power from 1450 to 1750?

Open Ended

What makes people respect a leader's authority beyond just fear?

3.2 Empires: Administrations

Thematic Focus: Governance (GOV)

SWBAT analyze and compare how two land-based empires used religious tolerance as a method of legitimizing their rule by identifying a shared pattern of governance and supporting it with specific historical examples.

Reasoning Process: Comparison

Skill: 5.A - Identify patterns among or connections between historical developments

Exit Ticket: 3 MCQ and 3 SAQ

3.2 Empires: Administrations

Historians look for a simple pattern to understand how rulers gain and keep power:

1. Cause: What problem did the ruler face?

2. Method: What action did they take to solve it?

3. Effect: How did this action help them legitimize (make rule seem right) or consolidate (make rule effective) their power?
   

Centralizing Control in Europe

Centralizing Control in Europe

Let's break down an example together.

• Ruler: King James I of England

• Cause: Needed to justify his authority and prevent challenges to his power.

• Method: Promoted the Divine Right of Kings - the idea that his right to rule came directly from God.

• Effect:

  • Legitimized his power by making himself God's representative on Earth.

  • Consolidated his power because challenging him was seen as challenging God himself.

Multiple Choice

According to the Divine Right of Kings, where did King James I's power come from?

• A) The English Parliament

• B) The Pope in Rome

• C) The will of the people

• 
  D) God

Jigsaw Instructions - Part 1

Instructions:

1. You will be assigned a number: 1, 2, or 3.

2. Find all other students with your number. This is your EXPERT GROUP.

3. In your Expert Group, you will read one section of the text and become the master of it.

Sections:

• Group 1: Centralizing Control in Europe & Russia

• Group 2: Centralizing Control in the Ottoman Empire & East Asia

• Group 3: Legitimizing Power & Financing Empires

Expert Group Task Instructions:

In your EXPERT GROUP, your mission is to:

1. READ your assigned section.

2. DISCUSS and complete that section of your Cornell Notes.

3. PREPARE a 2-minute teach-out for your table mates. You must explain:

   • The Main Idea of your section.

   • One specific example of a ruler/method.

   • The Cause, Method, and Effect of your example.
     Timer: 15 minutes

Jigsaw Instructions - Part 2 Instructions:

1. RETURN to your original table.

2. You should now have at least one Expert 1, Expert 2, and Expert 3 at your table.

3. Each expert will have 2 minutes to teach their section to the group.

4. LISTENERS: Fill out your Cornell Notes as you learn about the other sections!

Open Ended

Rank the following methods of control from MOST to LEAST impactful for maintaining imperial authority: 1) Religious Legitimization, 2) Military Reorganization, 3) Economic Centralization. Defend your #1 choice with a specific example.

Open Ended

Take a stance: The centralization of power was primarily a necessary evolution for state security OR a destructive force on subject populations. Support your claim with one piece of evidence for your side and one piece of evidence against the other side.