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CLSM · World History · Progress Check 1
African Cities & Connections
Read the situation. Connect the ideas. Show how you know.
Name ___________________________Class __________ Date __________
01 Recall, then make a connection.
Archaeology
Provenance
Urban center
How do archaeology and provenance help establish what an object can reveal about an urban center? Explain why an imported object alone cannot tell the complete story of a city.
Read the situation.
Africa contains many regions, languages, communities, and political histories. A single story cannot represent the continent. This activity studies two places: Djenné in West Africa and Great Zimbabwe in southern Africa. Their histories show different forms of urban life, architecture, and connection with wider exchange networks.
02 Organize the information.
A fictional display budget
The museum has 30 label spaces. It assigns 12 to Djenné and 12 to Great Zimbabwe. Each remaining space will explain a limitation or a source question.
How many spaces remain for source questions?
Answer: __________________ spaces
Show the calculation, then explain what the result tells you in this model.
CLSM · World History · Progress Check 1
What does the evidence show?
African Cities & Connections
03 Follow the evidence.
Support an urban history
Claim: “These sites preserve evidence of organized urban communities.”
Select all evidence directly relevant to that claim.
Multiple dwellings and planned architectural spaces at a settlement.
Evidence of craft production and exchange associated with the site.
A modern tourist’s claim that all African cities are alike.
A map showing the location of a distant ocean.
Name the useful records and explain how they answer the claim.
04 Apply the idea.
The final heading
Your display needs a heading that recognizes achievement without flattening diversity.
Choose the strongest heading.
Djenné and Great Zimbabwe: distinct communities, urban achievements, and wider connections.
Africa had one urban culture that never changed.
Imported objects explain all African achievements.
Choose a conclusion and explain why it fits the situation.
05 Carry the idea forward.
Write an exhibit label comparing the two cities. Explain one achievement at each, one connection to trade, and why an imported object cannot by itself establish who built a city.