East Asian Statecraft: Evidential Research and Critiques of Autocracy

Comparative Political Thought: Enlightenment and Global Traditions

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Examine the Kaozheng (evidential research) movement in China, Huang Zongxi's critique of imperial despotism, and Japanese neo-Confucian debates on public good.

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Comparative Political Thought: Enlightenment and Global Traditions

6th Grade · Social Studies · US-NJ-SS

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Compare European Enlightenment theories of sovereignty, liberty, and rights with contemporary political, social, and moral philosophy across Islamic empires and East Asia.

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6.2.12.CivicsPR.2.aNew Jersey Social Studies Standards · 6th Grade

Compare the principle ideas of the Enlightenment in Europe (e.g., political, social, gender, education) with similar ideas in Asia and the Muslim / Islamic empires of the Middle East and North Africa.