Chapter 14: The Latin West, 1200-1500 The following questions roughly outline Chapter 15 from your textbook. Each question is directly linked to other questions. You must be able to discuss all the information presented in your chapter—NOT just what is on the study guide—within the AP concepts that we discuss in class. Be aware that while the questions are basically “in order,” there is overlapping information. Some later sections may deal with previous questions. 1. Historians see 1200-1500 CE as Europe’s time of unusual progress. In what ways was this so? Rural Growth and Crisis Peasants and Population 2. What led to the rapid growth in Europe’s population? (KC 3.3.2B) 3. What brought higher agricultural yields? ( KC: 3.3.1A; 3.3.2B) Black Death and Social Change (KC: 3.2.4B, 3.3.3A/B) 4. How did the Black Death spread? Explain its composition of two diseases. 5. “The plague left a mark on the survivors.” Explain. 6. What changes did the Black Death bring to Europe’s social structure? Despite this change what social concept would remain? 7. How did the welfare of the rural masses improve after the Black Death? Mines and Mills 8. How were the centuries before 1500 a form of an “industrial revolution”? 9. How did this “industrialization” change the landscape? Urban Renewal Trading Cities 10. Urbanization increased after 1200 in the Latin West as a result of ___________ & __________. Bulliet, 4 th Ed. The Earth and Its Peoples Prepared by Pamela Hammond, Brantley County High School, Nahunta, GA
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Chapter 14: The Latin West, 1200-1500
The following questions roughly outline Chapter 15 from your textbook. Each question is directly linked to other questions. You must be able to discuss all the information presented in your chapter—NOT just what is on the study guide—within the AP concepts that we discuss in class.
Be aware that while the questions are basically “in order,” there is overlapping information. Some later sections may deal with previous questions.
1. Historians see 1200-1500 CE as Europe’s time of unusual progress. In what ways was this so?Rural Growth and Crisis
Peasants and Population
2. What led to the rapid growth in Europe’s population? (KC 3.3.2B)3. What brought higher agricultural yields? ( KC: 3.3.1A; 3.3.2B)
Black Death and Social Change (KC: 3.2.4B, 3.3.3A/B)
4. How did the Black Death spread? Explain its composition of two diseases.5. “The plague left a mark on the survivors.” Explain.6. What changes did the Black Death bring to Europe’s social structure? Despite this change what
social concept would remain?7. How did the welfare of the rural masses improve after the Black Death?
Mines and Mills
8. How were the centuries before 1500 a form of an “industrial revolution”?9. How did this “industrialization” change the landscape?
Urban Renewal
Trading Cities
10. Urbanization increased after 1200 in the Latin West as a result of ___________ & __________.11. Discuss how the following became centers of trade: Italian states of Venice & Genoa, Hanseatic
League, Flanders, Champagne, Florence (KC: 3.1.1A, 3.1.3C, 3.1.3D, 3.2.1B)
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12. Using the map in your book as reference, circle each city/region on the map below.
13. How did the new
merchant-banker class grow in importance and power? (KC: 3.1.1C, 4.2.2A)Civic Life
14. What advantage did European cities have over those in China and the Islamic world?15. Explain why the Jews were generally welcomed in urban areas?16. How did guilds contribute to or hinder economic and social life?
Diversity + Dominance: Persecution of Jews, 1272-1349
17. Why is Thomas Aquinas opposed to forced conversion of Jews?18. What protections does Pope Gregory X (1272) extend to the Jews?19. Why did persecutions increase in times of crisis such as the Black Death? What forms did this
take?
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Gothic Cathedrals
20. What are the architectural features of these cathedrals? Label the features on the photograph below. (KC: 4.3.1A)
Environment + Technology—The Clock
21. Why do historians consider the clock as one of the most important technological devices of the later Middle Ages?
22. How did the European clock differ from the Chinese clocks?Learning, Literature, and the Renaissance
Universities and Learning
23. Explain how learning increased in Europe between the 11th and 13th centuries.24. How did universities in the Latin West differ from others in the world?
Humanists and Painters (KC: 4.1.7A/B)
25. What do the humanist writers have in common?26. What enabled the humanists to have widespread influence with their writing?
Renaissance Artists (KC: 4.1.7A/B)
27. What changes were brought about in Renaissance art that differentiates it from earlier periods?
28. What fostered the Renaissance in Flanders and Italy?
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Political & Military Transformations (KC: 4.2.2B)
Monarchs, Nobles, and Clergy
29. What enabled monarchs to break the power of the nobles and clergy?30. What were the causes and effects of the Great Western Schism (1378-1415)31. Trace England’s rise as a unified, limited monarchy
Hundred Years War, 1337-1453
32. What were the causes and effects of the Hundred Years War?New Monarchies
33. How were the monarchies of France and England different following the Hundred Years War?34. How was royal power “checked”?
Iberian Unification
35. How did Portugal and Spain become unified kingdoms?
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