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CLSM · World History · Progress Check 1
Power After Conquest
Read the situation. Connect the ideas. Show how you know.
Name ___________________________Class __________ Date __________
01 Recall, then make a connection.
Coercion
Administration
Legitimacy
Distinguish coercion, administration, and legitimacy. Why can evidence that a government collects taxes establish ongoing control without proving that every resident accepts its authority?
Read the situation.
Conquering territory and governing it are different problems. Armies can defeat rivals, but a ruler also needs information, revenue, people who carry out decisions, and some workable relationship with those being governed. Cooperation may be negotiated, inherited, purchased, or coerced. A successful military campaign does not tell us whether people accept a ruler as legitimate.
02 Organize the information.
Three kinds of power
Classify each fictional record by its main mechanism. Real policies can combine mechanisms; the wording here identifies the strongest one.
Place each record under its main mechanism.
A. CoercionB. AdministrationC. Legitimacy
Example
Category letter
1. Soldiers threaten punishment for refusing an order.
2. Clerks standardize tax records across districts.
3. A ceremony presents a ruler as the rightful successor.
4. Officials use relay reports to track local supplies.
5. An armed garrison suppresses an uprising.
6. A public genealogy links a dynasty to respected ancestors.
Explain one placement using a detail from the example.
CLSM · World History · Progress Check 1
What does the evidence show?
Power After Conquest
03 Follow the evidence.
Does the report prove consent?
An adviser writes: “The entire population freely accepted the new government.” You need evidence that directly challenges that universal claim.
Select all records that challenge the claim.
A petition from residents protests a new levy.
An account reports families fleeing a punitive campaign.
A palace ledger records spending on a public ceremony.
The ruler issued a new title.
Name the useful records and explain how they answer the claim.
04 Apply the idea.
Which conclusion survives?
Case A uses local administrators after conquest. Case B funds public institutions and maintains a military presence. Neither record includes a broad survey of residents.
Choose the best conclusion.
Both cases combine tools of rule, but these records cannot establish universal acceptance.
Case A had no coercion because it used clerks.
Case B was accepted by everyone because it built institutions.
Choose a conclusion and explain why it fits the situation.
05 Carry the idea forward.
Write a council-review paragraph comparing two ways governments maintain power after conquest. Explain what evidence would be needed to evaluate legitimacy, and identify whose experience is missing.