the middle 17th century
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The Middle 17th Century:The Last Days?
Word Wall• Famine• Climate change• Rebellion• Natural Disasters• Harvests (Farming)
How to Have A Cataclysm
Revenues ***
Taxes***
Unpredictable Seasons
Crop Harvests
Food Prices***
Loyalty to Monarch***
*** Class Contribution
Snowball Effect?
Bad harvests
natural disasters
instability***
fewer resources*
**
= Cataclysmic Impact
Brainstorm #1• As an absolute ruler, to understand how would
you react to a string of disasters that threatened your nation, write how you would rank your priorities as ruler.
• The power of your nation (its territory, resources)• Stability of your nation • Your hold on power• Safety of your people
GROUP: Advise or Decide
• 1 will be a ruler, the rest advisers
• Advise your ruler on their response
• Rulers, decide
• Time goes on, advise and decide again
Stage One• Country 1• Floods wipe out your
crops by 60%• Your ally is invaded
• Country 2• Early frost ruins 50%
of your crops• Another country you
control is in rebellion
• Country 3• Bad harvests lose 30%
of your crops
• Country 4• Winter floods wipe out
40% of your crops• Summer drought wipe
out 30% of your crops• Revenues are down
40%
Stage Two• Country 1• A year without
summer• Your nobles rebel
against you
• Country 3• Bad harvests lose 30%
of your crops
• Country 2
• Another country you control is in rebellion
• Country 4• Winter floods wipe out
40% of your crops• Summer drought wipe
out 30% of your crops• Revenues are down
40%
Brainstorm #2• In groups, role-play how your feelings about your
ruler have changed based on their actions and decisions:
• Peasants• Military• Merchants• Nobles• Outsiders