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Purpose of Lesson/Learning Targets: 

• Identify some major characteristics of the Byzantine Empire and its historical impact (especially in regards to the development & spread of Eastern Orthodox Christianity) 

  • Create multi-flow Thinking Map

• Compare and Contrast the Western Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church

  • Create Double Bubble Thinking Map

Purpose of Lesson/Learning Targets

• PART ONE KIEVAN RUSSIA:

  • Identify the unique geographic location of Russia (explain how Russia’s unique geographic location has caused debate over its cultural identity)

  • Identify and explain how Byzantines (and Eastern Orthodox Christianity), Slavic groups, and Mongols have impacted and shaped Russian history​​

• Part TWO SELJUK TURKS:

  • Identify how the Seljuk Turks continued Muslim control of the Middle East

  • Describe the nature of the Seljuk Turks’ interaction with medieval Christians (esp. The Crusades) and the Mongols…​

Purpose of Lesson/Learning Targets: 

• Describe the general geographic boundaries and regions of Europe

• Identify and explain unifying factors in Europe’s history (esp. Greco-Roman and Christian influences and the influence of the USSR in Eastern Europe)

• Identify and explain the role of the European Union

• Identify the medieval time period/The Middle Ages in European history

Purpose of Lesson/Learning Targets: 

• Identify, describe, and analyze major effects of the fall of the Western Roman Empire and its connection to the European Middle Ages

• Begin to identify, describe, and analyze major political, economic, and religious characteristics of early medieval European society and their causes (esp.  effects of the development of Germanic kingdoms, the role of the Western Roman Catholic Church, and Charlemagne’s Carolingian Empire)

Purpose of Lesson/Learning Targets: 

• Identify and describe major political, economic, and religious characteristics of early medieval European society and their causes (esp. feudalism and the manor system)

• Explain & analyze the causes of the development of feudalism in medieval Europe and describe major characteristics of this system

.Purpose of Lesson/Learning Targets: 

• Describe and analyze the role and political impact of the Western Roman Catholic Church on European medieval society

.Purpose of Lesson/Learning Targets: 

• Describe and analyze the role and political impact of the Western Roman Catholic Church on European medieval society during the High Middle Ages 

Purpose of Lesson/Learning Targets: 

• Analyze the role and political impact of the Western Roman Catholic Church on European medieval society (focus on Crusades)

• Identify and explain major causes of the Crusades

• Identify and explain major effects of the Crusades (especially in regards to trade, the Reconquista, and the role of the Crusades in the early development of centralized nation-states)

Purpose of Lesson/Learning Targets: 

• Describe major changes in later medieval society and explain their causes (esp. agricultural innovations and growth of trade leading to growth of towns, cities, and universities in the later middle ages)

• Explain the causes and spread of the Plague (esp. using maps)

• Identify major effects/consequences of the Black Death on European society (esp. the role of the Plague in bringing about the end of the medieval period/early development of centralized nation-states)

Purpose of Lesson/Learning Targets: 

• Identify European nations in the High and Late Middle Ages which began to develop characteristics of modern states (especially development of centralized governments in France and England and democratic developments in England)

• Identify and explain major causes of the end of the Middle Ages/medieval period (especially the role of the Black Death, the Great Schism, the Hundred Years’ War and the development of the English long bow)