Chapter 14: The Latin West, 1200-1500CE

Reading Questions:

  1. What was the Black Death? How did the rural crisis prior to the outbreak of plague contribute to the Black Death’s devastation?
  2. What changes in European culture resulted from the Black Death? How did the peasantry benefit? What other changes occurred?
  3. What were (and describe) the ecological effects of industry in medieval Europe?
  4. What was the role of guilds, and explain how they functioned on a social, political, and economic level?
  5. What social and economic factors led to the growth of cities in the late medieval Europe? Discuss the connection between urban renewal and the increase in trade
  6. How did the political relationship among monarchs, nobles, and the church change from 1200 to 1500CE? Was this relationship different from that in feudal times? Why or why not?
  7. What was the Great Western Schism? How did politics play a role in the event? How did it change politics in the West
  8. Is the Schism related to the Magna Carte? Why or why not?
  9. What were the causes of the One Hundred Years War? What were the results? Be specific and complete!
  10. Discuss the reunification of Iberia (The Reconquista)
  11. Discuss the opportunities and limitation of elite (upper class) women around the year 1500CE. Had this changed in comparison to 1000CE? Explain.
  12. Discuss the reintroduction of Greek and Roman learning in the Latin West.
  13. From where did Latin Europe get these writing?
  14. Discuss the role of the university
  15. Discuss scholasticism. Is it reason or faith? Both? Why?
  16. What was the Renaissance? Describe what changed in Europe.
  17. Was it really a ‘rebirth’? Why or why not?
  18. What and who are the humanists? How did they change learning in the Latin West?
  19. What factors were responsible for the promotion of learning and the arts in the Latin West?

Vocabulary: DO NOT USE THE GLOSSARY!!!

-Latin West

-Serfs

-Three-field system

-Black Death

-Water Wheel

-Mills

-Hanseatic League

-European Jews

-Guilds

-Gothic Cathedrals

-Renaissance (Europe)

-Universities

-Scholasticism

-Humanist (Renaissance)

-Printing Press

-Great Western Schism

-Hundred Years War

-New Monarchies

-Reconquest of Iberia

-Magna Carte

-Clocks

Map Exercises: Front and Back of this page

  1. Page 386
  2. What parts of Europe were hit first by the Black Death?
  3. Why do you think that is?
  4. What parts were the last to see the Black Death?
  5. What parts of Europe were relatively spared by the Black Death?
  6. Why do you think that is?
  1. Page 388
  2. How much control over trade did Genoa and Venice have on European trade?
  3. What parts of Europe would mostly develop a textile industry?
  4. What part of Europe would be involved in the slave trade?
  5. List 10 modern cities that were involved in the medieval trade network.
  6. Page 401
  7. What parts of Europe were added to Latin Christendom by the year 1200?
  8. By the year 1500?
  9. What part(s) of Europe would be lost by 1500?
  10. What would account for that?
  11. What parts of Italy would be free from the control of the Holy Roman Empire?

Homework Schedule for Chapter 14: Latin West 1200-1500CE

Assigned Thursday 9/27 – due Friday 9/28

-Read pages 381-387; Questions 1-3

Assigned Friday 9/28 – due Monday 10/1

-Read 387-395; Questions 4 and 5

-Diversity + Dominance Box 1-3

Assigned Monday 10/1 – due Tuesday 10/2

-Read 395-400; Questions 11-14

Assigned Tuesday 10/2 – due Wednesday 10/3

-Read 400-406; Questions 6-9

Assigned Wednesday 10/3

-Study for test: Chapter 14

Essays for exam:

  1. What were the major causes of population decline in the fourteenth century, and what results did this have in social, economic, and political terms?
  1. The later Middle Ages was a period of great intellectual and artistic achievement marked by what is often called the Renaissance. What was the Renaissance, and what were some of its most important and lasting cultural and artistic achievements? Discuss why some historians believe there was no ‘rebirth’ but a continuation of trends and ideas of the medieval period.