Social Studies - 2019-20
WHI.14d - Church Scholars
The student will apply social science skills to understand the social, economic, and political changes and cultural achievements in the high and late medieval periods by
d) evaluating and explaining the preservation and transfer to Western Europe of Greek, Roman, and Arabic philosophy, medicine, and science.
BIG IDEAS
UNDERSTANDING THE STANDARD
Education was largely confined to the clergy during the Middle Ages. The masses were uneducated, while the nobility was concerned with feudal obligations. Church scholars preserved ancient literature in monasteries in the East and West.
ESSENTIALS
Church scholars
Were among the very few who could read and write
Worked in monasteries
Translated Greek and Arabic works into Latin
Made new knowledge in philosophy, medicine, and science available in Europe
Laid the foundations for the rise of universities in Europe in the thirteenth century
KEY VOCABULARY
Terms
Magna Carta (12a)
Medieval (12a)
Norman Conquest (12a)
Hundred Years War (12a)
Common law (12a)
Parliament (12a)
Evolution (12a)
Tsar (12a)
Moors (12a)
Crusades (12b)
Crusader states (12b)
Black Death (12c)
Bubonic Plague (12c)
Scarcity (12c)
People
Ottomans (12a)
William the Conqueror (12a)
Henry II (12a)
King John (12a)
Hugh Capet (12a)
Joan of Arc (12a)
Ferdinand & Isabella (12a)
Charles V (12a)
Ivan the Great (12a)
Pope Urban (12b)
Saladin (12b)
Mongols (12b)
Places
England (12a)
France (12a)
Russia (12a)
Moscow (12a)
Holy Land (12b)