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Guided Reading & Analysis: Western Europe after the Fall of Rome
Chapter 12- Western Europe after Rome 400-1450 CE
Reading Assignment:
Ch 12 AMSCO
Purpose:
This guide is not only a place to record notes as you read, but also to provide a place and structure for
reflections and analysis using higher level thinking skills with new knowledge gained from the reading.
Reading Assignment:
Ch 12 AMSCO
Purpose:
This guide is not only a place to record notes as you read, but also to provide a place and structure for
reflections and analysis using higher level thinking skills with new knowledge gained from the reading.
Basic Directions:
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Pre-Read:
Skim:
Read the prompts/questions within this guide before you read the chapter.
Flip through the chapter and note the titles and subtitles. Look at images and their
read captions. Get a feel for the content you are about to read.
Read/Analyze: Read the chapter. Remember, the goal is not to “fish” for a specific answer(s) to
reading guide questions, but to consider questions in order
to critically understand what you read!
Write
Write your notes and analysis in the spaces provided.
Key Concepts For Period 3 600-1450
Key Concept 3.1 Expansion and Intensification of communication and exchange networks
1. Improved transportation technologies and commercial practices led to an increased volume of trade, and expanded the geographical
range of existing and newly active trade networks.
II. The movement of peoples caused environmental and linguistic effects.
III.Cross-cultural exchanges were fostered by the intensification of existing, or the creation of new, networks of trade and
communication.
Key Concept 3.2 I. Empires collapsed and were reconstituted; in some regions new state forms emerged.
Key Concept 3.2 II. Interregional contacts and conflicts between states and empires encouraged significant technological and cultural
transfers
Key Concept 3.3 Increased productive capacity and its’ consequences II. The fate of cities varied greatly, with periods of significant
decline, and periods of increased urbanization buoyed by rising productivity and expanding trade networks
III. Despite significant continuities in social structures and in methods of production, there were also some important changes in labor
management and in the effects of religious conversion on gender relations and family life.
1. Introduction and Political and Social Structures of the Early Middle Ages
Key Concepts &
Main Ideas
Key Concept 3.2 I.
Empires collapsed
and were
reconstituted; in
some regions new
state forms
emerged.
Notes pg 219-222
Analysis
Why is the early Middle Ages sometimes referred to as the Dark Ages?
Why is 476 CE considered a turning point in European
history?
How far did Islam spread into Europe? Why did it not spread farther?
Who was Charlemagne and what did he?
What comparisons can be made between the Carolingian dynasty and
the Tang dynasty in China-Identify 3
1.
2.
Why did a strong central government like Rome not
emerge in Europe during the early Middle Ages?
Despite the similarities why were the outcomes
different? Support with examples
3.
Who was Empress Wu and what did she do?
Why did Confucianism continue despite Wu’s support of
Buddhism?
Who were the Vikings and what areas did they conquer? What century?
What enabled them to conquer this region?
Who are the Magyars and what area did they settle?
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2. Feudalism: Political and Social Systems
I.
Notes pg 223-224
Analysis
Define Fiefs
Explain the obligations that exist in feudalism.
Define Lords
Define Vassals
Define Knights
Based of your understanding of feudalism what
similarities/differences exist in European vs.
Japanese feudalism?
Define Feudalism
How did the code of chivalry dictate behavior of knights?
How is the code of chivalry similar to the Bushido?
Define Manors, manorial system and serfs
Describe the workings of the three-field system.
What caused so little land to be used during the early Middle Ages? How did that change towards
the end of the middle ages?
What new Technology was made that helped improve farming throughout the Middle Ages?
Explain how manors were self-sufficient communities
and how they limited the need for trade.
What happened to language as a result of the Manor system?
How did Western European feudalism allow for social mobility?
Compare this with social classes in the Tang.
3. Roman Catholic Church during the Middle Ages
Notes 224-225
Analysis
Why is 1054 significant for the Catholic Church?
Explain the major causes of the Great Schism (think
back to Byzantines)
How did the Catholic church hold and maintain power during the Middle Ages?
Compare the power of the Catholic Church over
Western Europe to the power of Islam over its
empire
How did the Church influence most aspects of education?
How did the church wield political power throughout Western Europe?
Why did Popes have such influence as religious and
not political leaders?
What role did monasteries play in Western Europe?
Compare this to the role of monasteries in the
Byzantine Empire.
4. Political Trends in the Later Middle Ages
Notes pg 226-227
Analysis
What are two developments of the later Middle Ages that allowed certain Monarchs to gain
considerable power?
Explain the Estates General
How did the Estates General in Capetian France
show that kings did not have all the power?
How did the lay investiture controversy challenge church authority? How did it end?
What major differences existed in the amount of
power monarchs had in France, the Holy Roman
Empire and Norman England?
How did the Magna Carta limit power of the English monarchs?
How was English feudalism different from the rest of Europe?
Explain the Hundred Years War.
5. High Middle Ages
Notes pg 227
What were two main characteristics that symbolized the beginning of the High Middle Ages?
Analysis
6. Christian Crusades
Notes 227-229
What occurred in 1071 that changed the relationship between Christians and
Muslims in the holy land?
What was one social and one economic pressure that helped lead to a call for the
Crusades?
Analysis
Were the Crusades truly needed? What
was the overall impact of the Crusades
themselves but also this idea of the
church calling the Crusade? What does
it tell us about life in Post-Classical
Western Europe?
How did Pope Urban II use the church to justify, support and call for the Crusades in
1095?
Major events of the 1st and 4th Crusade?
How did the Crusades impact Western Europe (2 main reasons)
How did the Crusades help solve political issues in Western Europe at least for a
while?
7. Economic and Social Changes
Notes pg 229-232 (LOTS HERE!!!! SUPER IMPORTANT PART OF CHAPTER)
Analysis
How did commerce change a s a result of the Crusades?
What long term changes to trade are coming as a
result of Europeans inability to buy goods directly
from India?
How is the old feudal social system going to be alliterated?
What is the new bourgeoisie?
How did Agriculture change in the High Middle Ages (may need the lecture for this one)
Explain the purpose of the Hanseatic League?
What is a guild? How was the Hanseatic League a
good example of a guild?
What did Urban Life look like?
Explain the major changes from Romanesque
architecture to Gothic architecture.
How did women’s roles start to change?
Who was in charge of Wester Euro scholarship? Positive and negative?
What as Thomas Aquinas’ main argument?
Explain Scholasticism
How did Holy Orders serve Western Europe?
How did this compare to monastic life in the
Byzantine Empire?
Create a Venn Diagram over Universities in Europe vs. the Abbasid Caliphate.
How was education looked at by most of the world
during the post-classical age?
8. Renaissance
Notes pg 232-234
Analysis
How did expanding trade lead to the Renaissance?
What is the Renaissance?
What is humanism?
What areas were heavily influenced by humanist
thinking?
What did the Southern Renaissance look like?
Explain the differences between the Southern and
Northern Renaissances.
What did the Northern Renaissance look like?
SAQ
Answer Parts A&B
A. Compare the social systems of Europe from the period 400-1450 to those of South
Asia. Give ONE similarity and ONE Difference.
B. Identify and explain ONE political similarity between Europe and South Asia from the
period 400-1450 that provided order and unity among the population.
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