AP World History Assignments

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