World History

The World in Transition Unit

Study Guide

Purpose: This study guide is intended to support your efforts to understand the information within the specific unit. It includes a foundation from which to begin your studies on the assigned topic and is not all inclusive.

Key Terms: How are these terms connected to the topic and what is the importance of each?

Chapter 7 – The Rise of Europe

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Chivalry Serf Noble

Chapter 8 – The High and Late Middle Ages

Common law Magna CartaScholasticismTheologyVernacular Gothic Romanesque Estate Liberal arts Hundred Years War Crossbow Guilds Apprentice Journeymen Bourgeoisie Barter economy Market economy Great Schism The Black Death Anti-Semitism

Chapter 13 – Renaissance and Reformation

RenaissanceHumanismPerspectiveIndulgencesPredestination Reformation 95 Thesis Counter-Reformation Jesuits Heliocentric TheoryGeocentric Theory Scientific Method

Important Concepts: How do these main concepts connect to the overall topic?

Chapter 7 – The Rise of Europe

  • The impact of the collapse of the Western Roman Empire on Europe.
  • The orders of medieval social hierarchy, the changing role of the Church, the emergence of feudalism, and the development of private property as a distinguishing feature of Western Civilization.
  • The rise and achievements of significant rulers in medieval Europe.
  • The importance of Christian monasteries and convents as centers of education, charitable and missionary activity, economic productivity, and political power.
  • How Western civilization arose from a synthesis of classical Greco-Roman civilization, Judeo-Christian influence, and the cultures of northern European peoples promoting a cultural unity in Europe.

Chapter 8 – The High and Late Middle Ages

  • The causes and effects of the Great Famine of 1315-1316, The Black Death, The Great Schism of 1378, and the Hundred Years.
  • The factors that contributed to the growth of a modern economy.
  • The growth and development of national identify in England, France, and Spain.
  • Key figures, artistic, and intellectual achievements of the medieval period in Western Europe.
  • The developments in medieval English legal and constitutional history and their importance to the rise of modern democratic institutions and procedures.

Chapter 13 – Renaissance and Reformation

  • The economic and political causes for the rise of the Italian city-states (Florence, Milan, Naples, Rome and Venice).
  • Major influences on the architectural, artistic, and literary developments of Renaissance Italy (Classical, Byzantine, Islamic, Western European).
  • The major artistic, literary, and technological contributions of individuals during the Renaissance.
  • Characteristics of Renaissance humanism in works of art.
  • How ideas from the Middle Ages and Renaissance led to the Scientific Revolution.
  • How scientific theories and methods of the Scientific Revolution challenged those of the early classical and medieval periods.
  • The Roman Catholic Church's response to the Protestant Reformation in the forms of the Counter and Catholic Reformation.
  • The major contributions of individuals associated with the Scientific Revolution.

Unit Learning Goal: What is the goal for learning throughout the unit and upon its completion?

  • Students will explain the significant events, figures, and contributions of medieval civilizations of Western Europe and the effects of the Renaissance and Reformation.

World History

The World in Transition Unit

Learning Goal Scale

Level / Description / Self-Assessment
Innovating
4 / The student is able to evaluate the significance of medieval civilizations, the Renaissance and Reformationand make connections to the way in which the world has been shaped by them. / I completely understand the middle ages, Renaissance and Reformation and I can apply what I have learned to other world events. I can help guide other students in their learning of the topic.
Learning Goal
Applying
3 / The student is able to explainthe significant events, figures, and contributions of medieval civilizations of Western Europe and the effects of the Renaissance and Reformation. / I understand the middle ages, Renaissance and Reformation. I can remember and use the information.
Developing
2 / The student is able to summarize some of the significant events, figures, and contributions of medieval civilizations of Western Europe and the effects of the Renaissance and Reformation, but is not able to relate information together or draw conclusions. / I understand the basic ideas of the middle ages, Renaissance and Reformationdespite overall challenges with the more difficult material.
Beginning
1 / The student, with support, is able to state some of the significant events, figures, and contributions of medieval civilizations of Western Europe and the effects of the Renaissance and Reformation. / I understand, with help, some of the basic ideas of the middle ages, Renaissance and Reformation but on my own I am challenged with the material overall.
Not Using
0 / The student, even with support, is not able to recognize any of the significant events, figures, and contributions of medieval civilizations of Western Europe and the effects of the Renaissance and Reformation. / I do not understand the middle ages, Renaissance and Reformation regardless of the help I receive.