How do different rulers gain and keep their power?
What kind of impacts do invasions bring?
Why do churches become so important and powerful?
How do ideas spread through countries and then internationally?
What are the positive and negative effects of growth and trade?
Key Vocabulary:
medieval
revival
manor
vassal
liege lord
chivalry
serf
tithe
monastery
convent
Gothic style
anti-Semitism
papacy
crusades
Islam
Christianity
Judaism
Holy Land
schism
crusader state
burgher
guild
epidemic
common law
Parliament
Estates General
nationalism
Inquisition
Great Schism
antipope
indulgence
Enduring Understandings:
Summarize how European kingdoms developed in the early Middle Ages and realize the importance of a nation's close relationship with the pope.
Identify the impact of the Viking invasions on Europe, and explain the social and economic structure of feudalism that existed throughout Europe.
Describe the power of the Roman Catholic Church throughout society as well as its constuction of grand Gothic-style cathedrals. Tell how Jewish people endured medieval anti-Semitism.
Identify the Cusades and how they effected medieval Europe.
Describe the social and economic consequences of the growth of towns and the Black Death.
Discuss the development of nation-states in Europe.
Explain the Great Schism and idenitfy further troubles of the Roman Catholic Church.