Unit+Knowledge+and+Skills

Unit Knowledge and Skills

Students will know how and why Fuedalism developed in Western Europe.

Students will know how and why the rise of trade led to the end of fuedalism and the beginning of the modern economy.

Students will know how the medieval church dominated the lives of people in the middle ages.

Students will be able to compare the sources of power in the forms of government during the middle ages (i.e. fuedal system, monarchy)

Students will be able to describe developments during the Middle Ages (fuedalism, nation states, monarchies, religious institutions, limited government, trade, guilds) and give examples of how these developments influenced modern societies.

Students wil be able to explain why and give examples of how the population of Europe migrated and changed because of the Bubonic Plague.