Curriculum Map: Medieval Europe
Month: Feb/Mar School: Don Juan Avila Middle School
Grade Level: 7
Content Area: Social Science
Essential Question(s): What conditions after the fall of Rome led to the rise of feudalism? How did the feudal system affect the lives of
medieval Europeans? How did the church affect the lives of medieval Europeans? What were the crusades and what was their importance?
Standard
7.6 Students analyze the geographic,
political, economic, religious, and social
structures of the civilizations of Medieval
Europe.
Content
Europe After the Roman Empire
Daily Life in Feudal Europe
Skill
Understand absolute & relative locations
of European continent. I.D. physical and
man-made characteristics, topography,
waterways, vegetation, and climate.
Assessment
map skills exercises, label and draw
individual maps, map tests
Understand the spread of Chistianity
north of Alps and the role played by the
early Church and by monasteries in its
diffusion after the fall of Rome.
review questions, tests, quizzes, journal
entries
Explain the development of feudalism,
its operation in the medieval European
economy; physical geography
influences, and how feudal relationships
provided the foundation of political
order.
word maps, study guides, semantic maps,
tests, cultural universal cartoon strips,
quizzes.
Two Feudal Societies
Study the geography of the Europe
and the Eurasian land mass,
including its location,
topography, waterways,
vegetation, and climate and their
relationship to ways of life in
Medieval Europe.
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.
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.
Demonstrate an understanding of the
conflict and cooperation
The Power of the Church
The Byzantine Empire
The Crusades
Examine conflict & cooperation between
Papacy and European monarchs.
Understand the significance of
developments in medieval English legal
and constitutional practices and the rise
of democratic thought, and recognize
institutions such as Magna Carta,
parliament, development of habeas
corpus.
journal entries, quizzes, tests, tableau,
skits and written responses.
Cultural Universal map, word maps,
tests, quizzes, written responses, tests.
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7th Social Science
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Curriculum Map: Medieval Europe
Month: Feb/Mar School: Don Juan Avila Middle School
Grade Level: 7
Content Area: Social Science
Essential Question(s): What conditions after the fall of Rome led to the rise of feudalism? How did the feudal system affect the lives of
medieval Europeans? How did the church affect the lives of medieval Europeans? What were the crusades and what was their importance?
between the Papacy and
European monarchs (e.g.,
Charlemagne, Gregory VII,
Emperor Henry IV).
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).
Discuss the causes and course of the
religious Crusades and their
effects on the Christian,
Muslim, and Jewish populations
in Europe, with emphasis on the
increasing contact by Europeans
with cultures of the Eastern
Mediterranean world.
Map the spread of the bubonic plague
from Central Asia to China, the
Middle East, and Europe and
describe its impact on global
population.
Understand the importance of the
Catholic church as a political,
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7th Social Science
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Curriculum Map: Medieval Europe
Month: Feb/Mar School: Don Juan Avila Middle School
Grade Level: 7
Content Area: Social Science
Essential Question(s): What conditions after the fall of Rome led to the rise of feudalism? How did the feudal system affect the lives of
medieval Europeans? How did the church affect the lives of medieval Europeans? What were the crusades and what was their importance?
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").
Know the history of the decline of
Muslim rule in the Iberian Peninsula
that culminated in the Reconquista
and the rise of Spanish and
Portuguese kingdoms.
Across the Centuries (Ch. 10 & 11)
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7th Social Science
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