★ Inquiry DBQ Series · #2
Order or Justice? DBQ
How well did medieval law codes create order, establish justice, and protect the people who lived under them?
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 justice, and protected ordinary people.
Grade 7World Civilizations 600–1600Google Slides3 class periods
License: one teacher and their own students.
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What's included
- Teacher presentation (10 slides) with speaker notes
- Full DBQ packet (25 pages): hook, background essay, documents with analysis questions, sourcing organizer, bucketing and outline, writing task, 4-point rubric, teacher guide with answer key and sample essay
- Scaffolded version (9 pages): shorter excerpts, vocabulary support and sentence starters, with its own answer key
The documents
- Justinian’s Institutes (533)
- Fulbert of Chartres on the feudal oath
- The Qur’an on fair judgment
- The Salic Law of the Franks
- Ordeal of boiling water formula
- Magna Carta, clauses 39–40
- Data: What was a life worth?
Good to know
- Class time
- 3 periods of 45–50 minutes
- Pages
- 44 total
- Format
- Editable Google Slides
- Answer key
- Included
Standards: KAS Grade 7: 7.C.CV.1, 7.C.PR.1, 7.C.RR.1, 7.I.Q.1–3, 7.I.UE.1–3, 7.I.CC.1–5