Unit 1 and 2: Review

Question to answer

What are the seven concepts of worldview? Provide a brief description of each?

Questions to answer

1. What countries did we discuss while learning about the middle ages?
2. What was the hierarchy of the middle ages?
3. How did society in the middle ages affect what people were able to do?
4. What were the chain of events that took brought on the end of the middle ages?
5. What was the role of men in the middle ages?
6. What was the role of women in the middle ages?
7. Who or what dictated what people could do based on the society of the Middle Ages?
8. What is the hierarchy of the Middle Ages church and what were each group responsible for?
9. What events had an impact on how the people changed their views on the church?

Questions to answer

1. What was the Renaissance?
2. What was the worldview of Europeans at the end of the Middle Ages?
3. What did the people in Europe want from the East and why was there a demand for these goods?
4. What did the people in the East want from those in Europe and why was there a demand for these goods?
5. What external factors might help a city/town prosper economically?
6. How did the physical geography of Renaissance Europe affect trade and competition among European countries?
7. How did increased trade lead to the emergence of powerful city-states (i.e., Florence, Venice, Genoa)?
8. What impact might increased trade and business have on a society's worldview?
9. How did the Renaissance spark the growth and exchange of ideas and knowledge across Europe (i.e., astronomy, mathematics, science, politics, religion, arts)?

Questions to answer

1. What influenced the Renaissance movement?
2. What was the 4 concepts were valued by the Renaissance people?
3. How were the Renaissance ideas of education similar to what we believe today?
4. What role did art play in the early Renaissance?
5. We looked a bit at how the art of the Middle Ages compared to that in the Renaissance. How were these similar? How were they different?
6. In what ways can shifts in ideas affect a society's worldview?

1. What factors might motivate a society to venture into unknown regions beyond its borders?
2. What do you feel is the most significant reason why explorers were able to explore? Explain.
3. How similar is space exploration compared to exploration done in Renaissance?
4. What were the economic, religious, and political motives for exploring/expansion?
5. How might competition among the various countries have affected their exploration decisions?
6. Why were explorers determined to venture into dangerous, unknown waters?

1. What does the Europeans' treatment of peoples they came into contact with reveal about their worldview?
2. After the Spanish conquered the Aztec nation, what did the English do to reduce the wealth of Spain?
3. What happened to the indigenous people when Europeans arrived on the land of the indigenous people?
4. Who was one of the key players in the expansion of the English to North America? What was this persons motivation for wanting to explore?
5. How did imperialism play a part in the role of expanding to other continents?
6. Why were explorers determined to venture into dangerous, unknown waters?
7. In what ways did exploration and intercultural contact during the Renaissance affect the citizenship and identity of Europeans?