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Econ Ed Link: How the Crusades Led to the Finding of the New World Lesson PlanEcon Ed Link: How the Crusades Led to the Finding of the New World Lesson Plan
Publisher
Council for Economic Education
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6th - 8th
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Social Studies & History
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Lexile Measures
1060L
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Econ Ed Link: How the Crusades Led to the Finding of the New World

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The lesson will help students to discover the importance of the Crusades to the expansion of many European countries. Students will also be introduced to new products and find out why explorers were willing to risk all to locate new routes in order to reach these products quickly and cheaply.

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Concepts

demand, markets, opportunity cost, scarcity, supply and demand

Additional Tags

choice, council for economic education, crusades, econedlink, supply

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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