Middle Ages Through the Renaissance Timeline & Key Terms

Honor Code Level 2

Purpose: In this unit we will be studying a large time period of (primarily) European history. Together we will be creating another class timeline in order to help us organize this vast amount of information as well as create a visual for the chronology of the events we will study.

Topics:

  1. Middle Ages
  2. Feudalism
  3. Manorialism
  4. St. Francis of Assisi
  5. Constantine
  6. Charlemagne
  7. Thomas a Becket
  8. Pope Urban II
  9. Dante Alighieri
  10. Geoffrey Chaucer
  11. Joan of Arc
  12. Ferdinand and Isabella
  13. Inquisition
  14. Magna Carta
  15. Crusades
  16. 100 Year War
  17. The Great Schism
  18. Humanism
  19. Reformation
  20. Martin Luther
  21. Renaissance
  22. Henry VIII
  23. Galileo
  24. Leonardo Da Vinci
  25. Michelangelo
  26. Lorenzo de Medici
  27. Niccolo Machiavelli
  28. Johannes Gutenberg
  29. William Shakespeare
  30. Pope Leo X
  31. Sir Thomas More
  32. Black Plague
  33. Giovanni Boccaccio
  34. John Locke
  35. Thomas Hobbes
  36. Christopher Columbus

Your tasks:

  1. You are responsible for visualizing and summarizing your assigned part of the this timeline.
  1. Using the information in your textbook and in the Research & Media Tools from the High School Media Center web page, please complete the following:
  2. Read your information and ask the basic questions: Who? What? When? Where? Why? How? (as relevant)
  3. Summarize the event/person/era/concept in 2-3 sentences.
  4. Explain the significance you believe your event/person/era/concept to have had at the time (or in modern time) in 2-3 sentences.
  5. Select a picture that you can embed into your assignment (yes, the picture must correspond with your topic.).
  1. Create a one-page piece, formatted as follows (see example on back side):
  2. Include a title in a larger font.
  3. Picture below the title.
  4. Summary sentences (must be typed).
  5. Significance sentences (must be typed).
  6. Your name(s) in bottom right corner.
  7. Keep the paper vertical (length-wise).
  8. Any websites or other resources referenced should be cited at the bottom, on the back or on an additional piece of paper.

These will be briefly shared with the class TOMORROW!

Your topic (i.e. person/event/era/concept)- the title should be in big enough font to see from a distance because these will be hung in the room.

Summary:This section should include enough information to summarize the person/event/era/concept and include any important dates, locations, etc. It ought to answer the basic questions Who? What? When? Where? Why? How? Keep it simple and please remember that this is a SUMMARY!

Significance: Why is this event/person/era/concept important? Why is it remembered today? How did it influence the time in which it took place? What might have changed because of this topic?

Citations: Be sure to cite the sources that you utilized in making this poster. Please use MLA format.

Write your name in the bottom right corner.