Chapters 17 and 20: Europe in the Middle Ages | Reading Schedule (Word | Pdf)
Chapter 17: The Foundations of Christian Society in Western Europe
Chapter 20: Western Europe during the High Middle Ages
After reading Chapters 17 and 20, you will be able to:
Explain the causes of the "devolvement" of European government into local-basd arrangements of lords and vassals and the collapse of Roman-based urban economy into self-sufficient rural manors worked by free peasants and unfree serfs
Explain the importance of the Christian Church for leadership and literacy
Explain how the continuing invasions by Goths, Magyars, Vikings, and Arabs forced western Europeans out of cities and onto rural manors for both protection and food led to feudalism (lord-vassal allegiances of military service in exchange for land)
Explain how better weather, cessation of nomadic invasions, and agricultural inventions led to greater agricultural productivity and demographic growth
Explain the relationship between prosperity, government, the papacy, and merchants in the crusades ("...a large-scale exchange of ideas, technologies, and trade goods that profoundly influenced European development" [533])
Identify the major changes (personal loyalities of lord and vassal) and continuities (patriarchy, religion, law, nomadic invasions) in social structures in Medieval Europe that did not exist in "urban-based, citizenship-based Roman society"
As you read Chapters 17 and 20, take notes on the following terms and concepts: Who, what, where, why, when, how, so what?
Chapters 17 and 20
On provided maps under Downloads tab, locate the following places:
Frankish Kingdom
Britain
Holy Roman Empire
Iberian Peninsula
France
Hungary
Bulgaria
London
Toledo
Venice
Florence
Budapest
Jerusalem
Papal States
Scandinavia
Castle, Aragon, Granada, Portugal, Navarre
Balkan Peninsula
Poland
Serbia
Byzantine Empire
Paris
Vienna
Rome Naples
Constantinople
Chapters 17 and 20
As you read Chapters 17 and 20, take notes on the following terms and concepts: Who, what, where, why, when, how, so what?
Charlemagne
Vikings
Holy Roman Empire
Vassals
Horse collars,
watermills
Pope Gregory I
Hanseatic League
Chivalry
Thomas Aquainas
Gothic Cathedrals
Reconquista
Bubonic plague
Clovis
Magyars
Serfs
Manors
Heavy plows
William Duke of Normandy
Three estates
Guilds
Pilgrimage
Leif Erikson
Fourth Crusade
Chapters 17 and 20
Word document or pdf document of map locations and Chapters 17 and 20 terms; map for Successor States of the Roman empire; blank map for Successor States; Carolingian Empire; blank map for Carolingian Empire; Dissolution of Carolingian Empire; blank map for Dissolution of Carolingian Empire; Regional States of Medieval Europe; blank map of Regional States of Medieval Europe; Major Trade Routes of Medieval Europe; blank map of Major Trade Routes of Medieval Europe; Expansion of Europe 1000-1250; blank map of Expansion of Europe 1000-1250