The Spanish conquest of the Americas: contact, conquest, and the catastrophe that followed.
These are the statements the History Year 8 syllabus makes about Expanding Contacts. Dux records each one against the questions you answer, so you can see which of them you have actually been tested on and which have never been asked.
Aztec and Inca societies before contact - Expanding Contacts, Year 8.
Spanish motives and methods - Expanding Contacts, Year 8.
Technology and conquest - Expanding Contacts, Year 8.
Disease and demographic collapse - Expanding Contacts, Year 8.
The Columbian exchange - Expanding Contacts, Year 8.
Colonial administration and the encomienda - Expanding Contacts, Year 8.
Resistance and accommodation - Expanding Contacts, Year 8.
Legacy and historical debate - Expanding Contacts, Year 8.
Year 8 Assessment Task Shape is 50 marks in 75 minutes. Questions on Expanding Contacts are not one shape repeated: the command word decides what the marker is looking for, and the mark value decides how much of it. These are the ones History Year 8 uses.
Dux writes practice for this module in exactly these shapes, so the drill is the same task the paper sets — not a general knowledge quiz with the module name on it.
Expanding Contacts is module 3 of 3 in History Year 8. Students routinely lose marks because a question spans two modules, so the neighbouring modules are worth reading next to this one.
Dux diagnoses History Year 8 dot point by dot point, then writes questions in the shape this course marks. Written answers come back marked against the bands.