Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Overview of the Middle Ages

Subject Area

Social Studies

Grade(s)

8

Overview

This video is from Khan Academy and discusses the European Middle Ages to the beginning of the Renaissance. The video gives an overview with maps and touches on the key events like the Great Schism, Crusades, and the Black Death.  The video is 10 minutes and 42 seconds in length.

    Social Studies (2010) Grade(s): 8

    SS10.8.17

    Explain how events and conditions fostered political and economic changes in the late Middle Ages and led to the origins of the Renaissance.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:SS10.8.17

    Vocabulary

    • foster
    • origins
    • Renaissance
    • Middle Ages
    • Gothic
    • pandemic
    • Inquisition
    • vernacular
    • heresy
    • plague
    • King Edward III
    • Battle of Crécy
    • Joan of Arc
    • War of the Roses

    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • How the new prosperity of the late Middle Ages enabled the expansion of religious wealth and influence.
    • The effects of the Crusades on Europe.
    • The social and economic impact of the Black Death.
    • The cause and effect of the Hundred Years' War.
    • Identify changes in the arts, architecture, literature, and science in the late Middle Ages.
    • Changes in intellectual thought and economic prosperity that lead to an increase in education among most social groups.
    • Economic changes that resulted in a larger middle class and greater commercial prosperity.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • Understand textual evidence of primary and secondary sources.
    • Locate places on a map.
    • Compare and contrast historical events.
    • Analyze historical events for cause and effect.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • Events and changes in the late Middle ages led to the origins of the Renaissance.
    Link to Resource

    CR Resource Type

    Audio/Video

    Resource Provider

    Khan Academy
    Accessibility

    Accessibility

    Video resources: includes closed captioning or subtitles
    License

    License Type

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