Medieval Europe

Medieval Europe Standards:

• • Rise of feudalism at the end of the Roman Empire

    • Standard 7.6.3 - Understand the development of feudalism, its role in the medieval European economy, the way in which it was influenced by physical geography (the role of the manor and the growth of towns), and how feudal relationships provided the foundation of political order.

• Role of the Catholic Church

  • Standard 7.6.2 - . Describe the spread of Christianity north of the Alps and the roles played by the early church and by monasteries in its diffusion after the fall of the western half of the Roman Empire.

  • Standard 7.6.8 - Understand the importance of the Catholic church as a political, intellectual, and aesthetic institution (e.g., founding of universities, political and spiritual roles of the clergy, creation of monastic and mendicant religious orders, preservation of the Latin language and religious texts, St. Thomas Aquinas’s synthesis of classical philosophy with Christian theology, and the concept of “natural law”).

• Achievements from Medieval Europe

  • Standard 7.6.5 - Know the significance of developments in medieval English legal and constitutional practices and their importance in the rise of modern democratic thought and representative institutions (e.g., Magna Carta, parliament, development of habeas corpus, an independent judiciary in England).

• End of the Medieval Europe - plague, 100 Years War, new political ideas

  • Standard 7.6.7 - Map the spread of the bubonic plague from Central Asia to China, the Middle East, and Europe and describe its impact on global population