SS10.8.17

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

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

COS Examples

Examples: the Crusades, Hundred Years’ War, Black Death, rise of the middle class, commercial prosperity

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