Unpacked Content
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.
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
