Focus Questions for Topic 7:
1.) Explain the ways in which the Christian Church shaped daily medieval life.
2.) In what direction and in what ways did Christianity spread?
3.) What are the effects of the spread of Christianity in Europe?
4.) What influences did medieval monks and nuns have in medieval Europe? What were their contributions? How did they help unify medieval Europe?
5.) Analyze how the power of the Christian Church grew during the Middle Ages.
6.) Was is the difference between interdict and excommunication?
7.) How was Church authority and secular authority intertwined?
8.) How were Jews treated in Christian Western Europe? Why?
9.) Compare and contrast Christianity in the Byzantine Empire with Christianity in western Europe.
10.) How did the Great Schism divide different parts of medieval Europe?
11.) What institution today, if any, fills the same role that the medieval church filled for Europeans of the middle age
1.) Summarize the new technologies and breakthroughs that sparked the new agricultural revolution.
2.) How did the revival of trade lead to the growth of towns and cities?
3.) Explain how trade was changing medieval society.
4.) What is a guild? How did guilds lead to the rise of a middle class?
1.) What is currency? What factors must it have to be useful to facilitate exchange and replace barter? Did medieval times see the complete replacement of the barter system? Explain.
2.) How are guilds and modern trade unions similar? How do they work?
3.) What are the causes of the Crusades?
4.) Briefly describe each Crusade. What factors contributed to the vast difference in how the four crusades were conducted?
5.) Why did the fourth crusade sack Constantinople instead?
6.) What were the effects of the four Crusades?
7.) What did the Reconquista ultimately achieve? What were the benefits? Costs? Explain.
1.) What is the Magna Carta? Why do you think John agreed to sign the Magna Carta?
2.) What liberties and rights do you feel are the most essential in our society today?
3.) What has to happen for one power to extend its authority over another power? Think of the conflict between strong popes and strong monarchs.
4.) What events show that the Christian Church acted to politically unify medieval European nations?
5.) How is British Parliament and the U.S. Congress alike? different?
6.) What ideas in the Magna Carta influenced U.S. legal and governmental systems?
1.) Explain the ways in which the Christian Church shaped daily medieval life.
2.) In what direction and in what ways did Christianity spread?
3.) What are the effects of the spread of Christianity in Europe?
4.) What influences did medieval monks and nuns have in medieval Europe? What were their contributions? How did they help unify medieval Europe?
5.) Analyze how the power of the Christian Church grew during the Middle Ages.
6.) Was is the difference between interdict and excommunication?
7.) How was Church authority and secular authority intertwined?
8.) How were Jews treated in Christian Western Europe? Why?
9.) Compare and contrast Christianity in the Byzantine Empire with Christianity in western Europe.
10.) How did the Great Schism divide different parts of medieval Europe?
11.) What institution today, if any, fills the same role that the medieval church filled for Europeans of the middle age
1.) Summarize the new technologies and breakthroughs that sparked the new agricultural revolution.
2.) How did the revival of trade lead to the growth of towns and cities?
3.) Explain how trade was changing medieval society.
4.) What is a guild? How did guilds lead to the rise of a middle class?
1.) What is currency? What factors must it have to be useful to facilitate exchange and replace barter? Did medieval times see the complete replacement of the barter system? Explain.
2.) How are guilds and modern trade unions similar? How do they work?
3.) What are the causes of the Crusades?
4.) Briefly describe each Crusade. What factors contributed to the vast difference in how the four crusades were conducted?
5.) Why did the fourth crusade sack Constantinople instead?
6.) What were the effects of the four Crusades?
7.) What did the Reconquista ultimately achieve? What were the benefits? Costs? Explain.
1.) What is the Magna Carta? Why do you think John agreed to sign the Magna Carta?
2.) What liberties and rights do you feel are the most essential in our society today?
3.) What has to happen for one power to extend its authority over another power? Think of the conflict between strong popes and strong monarchs.
4.) What events show that the Christian Church acted to politically unify medieval European nations?
5.) How is British Parliament and the U.S. Congress alike? different?
6.) What ideas in the Magna Carta influenced U.S. legal and governmental systems?