The Invention of Money DBQ

What's included

• Student DBQ packet: hook, background reading, Documents A–F with analysis questions, evidence organizer, bucketing and outline pages, C-E-R essay and 4-point rubric
• Scaffolded version with shorter excerpts, plain-words versions and sentence starters
• Teacher presentation with speaker notes, plus a teacher guide with standards, pacing, answer key and a sample essay

The documents

• Document A: Hammurabi: wages in grain and silver
• Document B: Genesis: weighing the silver
• Document C: Aristotle: from barter to stamped metal
• Document D: Herodotus: the first coins
• Document E: Plato: a city needs a market
• Document F: Money around the ancient world (timeline)

Document A: Code of Hammurabi, trans. C. H. W. Johns (1903), public domain. Document B: Genesis 23, King James Version (1611), public domain. Document C: Aristotle, Politics, trans. William Ellis, public domain. Document D: Herodotus, Histories, trans. G. C. Macaulay (1890), public domain. Document E: Plato, The Republic, trans. Benjamin Jowett, public domain. Document F: teacher-made timeline.

Good to know

Class time

3 class periods

Format

Editable Google Slides

Answer key

Included

Standards: KAS Grade 6: 6.E.MA.1, 6.E.MI.3, 6.E.MI.4, 6.I.UE.1, 6.I.UE.2, 6.I.CC.1