Plague 101 | National Geographic

Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Subject Area

Social Studies

Grade(s)

8

Overview

What is plague? How many people died from the Black Death and the other plague pandemics? Learn about the bacterium behind the plague disease, how factors like trade and urbanization caused it to spread to every continent except Antarctica, and how three devastating pandemics helped shape modern medicine

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.

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.

CR Resource Type

Audio/Video

Resource Provider

National Geographic

License Type

Custom
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