Short Story Project for Middle Ages in Europe Due Oct 13th/ 14th
For this project you will write a short fictional story based on the characters, events, and
terminology in your assigned section of your chapter. You must use all of the terms,
characters, and events in your story and someone reading your story must be able to gain
an understanding of the characters, events, and terms and their role in history just by
reading your story. YOU MUST PUT ALL KEY TERMS, EVENTS, AND
CHARACTERS IN BOLD PRINT IN YOUR TYPED STORY. USE YOUR
TEXTBOOK NOT THE INTERNET! You do not need to include pictures. It can be
written as a short story or as a play but you will not be presenting anything or reading
anything out loud. You must provide submit a copy of your story to the schoolwork
section of My Big Campus and post your story on your blog located on your profile page.
Extra credit will be given to the person with the best story per chapter and it will go
on my teacher website!
Chapter 6 Lesson 1 Medieval Christianity (Popes)
Setting: Late Middle Ages in Europe (1000-1500)
Characters:, Pope Gregory VII, Henry IV, Cistercian monk, nun, Francis of Assisi,
Dominic de Guzman, Saint Nicholas, a common person
Events: Concordat of Worms, the Inquisition, Christian life in the later Middle Ages in
Europe
(Terms: lay investiture, interdict, sacraments, Gregorian chant, monastery, heresy,
flogging, relics
Chapter 6 Lesson 2 The Crusades (Knights)
Setting: southern France, The Byzantine Empire, the Holy Land, Constantinople,10961204
Characters: Pope Urban II, a Muslim, a Christian Knight, Ana Comnena, Italian trader,
Saladin, Richard I, Pope Innocent III, Nicholas of Cologne, child crusader, a Jewish
person living in Europe
Events: Council of Clermont 1095, Crusades 1-4, Impact of the Crusades
Terms: Crusades, infidels, calvary, infantry,
Chapter 6 Lesson 3 Culture of the Middle Ages (Architects)
Setting: France and England 1200-1500
Characters: architect, university professor, Thomas Aquinas, Geoffrey Chaucer
Events: architectural developments, rise of universities, rise of vernacular
Terms: Romanesque, Gothic cathedral, flying buttress, corporation, theology,
scholasticism, vernacular,
Chapter 6 Lesson 4 The Late Middle Ages (peasants)
Setting: France 1200-1500
Characters: peasant (serf), Italian merchant, a Jewish person, Pope Gregory XI, Pope
Urban the VI, peasant foot soldier, knight, Joan of Arc, King Louis XI, King Henry VII, a
Muslim, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, Hapsburg ruler, Czar Ivan IV
Events: the “Little Ice Age”, the Black Death, decline of Church power, the Great
Schism, The Hundred Years’ War, the rise of new monarchies
Terms: serf, bubonic plague, anti-Semitism, consequence, new monarchies, taille
Chapter 9 Lesson 1 The Italian States (merchants)
Setting: Italy Late Middle Ages (1350-1600)
Characters: Italian merchant, Francesco Sforza, Cosimo de Medici, Girolamo
Savonarola, Charles I, Niccolo Machiavelli, Baldassare Castiglione, burghers, peasant,
Italian father and mother
Events: rise of Italian states, politics of Italian states, society during the Renaissance
Terms: dominate, mercenaries, republic, decline, Machiavellian, burghers, dowry,
Chapter 9 Lesson 2 Ideas and Arts of the Renaissance (Artists)
Setting: Italy Late Middle Ages (1350-1600)
Characters: humanist writer, Francisco Petrarch, Dante Aligheri, humanist educator,
Johannes Gutenberg, renaissance artist, Masaccio, Brunelleschi, Leonardo da Vinci
Events: development of humanism, Renaissance education, invention of the printing
press, Renaissance Art, Renaissance Architecture
Terms: secularism, humanism, vernacular, fresco
Chapter 10 Lesson 1 The Reformation in Europe (Monks)
Setting: the Protestant Reformation in Europe 1517-1600
Characters: Marin Luther, Desideruis Erasmus, Johann Tetzel, Charles V
Events: Christian humanism, reform, Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation
(ninety-five theses, break with the church, rise of Lutheranism), The Peasant’s War, The
Peace of Ausberg
Terms: Christian humanism, salvation, indulgence, Lutheranism
Chapter 10 Lesson 2 The Spread of Protestantism (Protestants)
Setting: Switzerland and England1517-1600
Characters: Ulrich Zwingli, John Calvin, King Henry VIII, Thomas More, Edward the
VI, Bloody Mary, an Anabaptist, Ignatius of Loyola, Pope Paul III
Events: war between Protestants and Catholics in Switzerland, the Reformation in
England, role of Protestants in creating public schools, the Catholic Reformation, the
Council of Trent Ignatius of Loyola, Pope Paul III
Terms: predestination, theocracy, annul, heretics, celibacy, clergy, divine, antiSemitism, ghettos, the Counter-Reformation