Feudal Worlds
Europe and Japan
Unit Vocabulary:
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Agrarian society
Bubonic Plague
Clergy
Convent
Crusades
Daimyo
Divine Right of
Kings
Middle Ages
Monarchy
Monastery
Monk
Noble
Nun
Saladin
Samurai
Shinto
Shotgun
Sultan
Warlord
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Early Middle
Ages
Feudalism
Fief
Heretic
High Middle
Ages
Holy Land
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Hundred Years
War
Isolationism
Magna Carta
Manor
Medieval World
Unit Objectives:
*Feudal Europe
_____1. Explain why Europe was a frontier land in the Early Middle Ages.
_____2. Explain how people are interconnected and interact in Europe through the
Middle Ages. (History 2.a)
_____3. Describe how invasions affected the people Europe. (History 2.a)
_____4. Determine and explain the historical context of Charlemagne. (History 2.b)
_____5. Determine and explain the historical context of the Crusades. (History 2.b)
_____6. Determine and explain the historical context of the 9Black Death. (History
2.b)
_____7. Explain how feudalism shaped medieval society. (History 2.c)
______8. Describe the development of the Medieval World. (History 2.c)
_____9a. Explain how the Church dominated life in the Middle Ages. (History 2.d)
_____10. Identify the economic and social changes that occurred in the High Middle
Ages. (History 2.d)
_____11a. Analyze the development of the Medieval World. Discuss social, political,
cultural, and technological aspects. (History 2.d)
_____12. Explain how the physical environment of Europe influenced economy,
culture and trade patterns of the Middle Ages. (Geography 2.d)
*Feudal Japan
_____13. Explain how feudalism developed in Japan. (History 2.b)
_____14. Analyze why Japan practiced isolationism. (History 2.a,d)
_____15. Explain how the physical environment of Japan influenced culture and trade
patterns during Feudalism. (Geography 2.d)
_____16. Describe the development of feudal Japan. (History 2.c)
_____17. Analyze the development of feudal Japan. Discuss social, political, cultural,
economic, and technological aspects. (History 2.d)
_____18a. Describe feudalism as it existed in Japan.
_____19. Identify the economic and social changes that occurred in Feudal Japan.
______20. Identify, explain, and describe the roles of various peoples in Feudal Japan.
Essential Questions:
 Why do civilizations rise and fall?
 How does geography influence the culture of civilization?
 How do citizens reorganize for protection after the fall of a government?
 How do ideas move in and among cultures?