World History
Unit 3 Syllabus
Week 1
Monday, November 7 Charlemagne
HW: Read / Take Notes pages 214 -224
Tuesday, November 8 Feudalism & Manorialism
Wednesday, November 9 Feudalism & Manorialism
HW: Ch 7, Sec 3 Summary & pps 231 - 236
Thursday, November 10 Economic Changes in the Middle Ages
HW: Ch 8, Secs 1 & 2 Summaries
DUE: Chapter 7 Study Guide Due
DUE: Honors Paper Group A
Week 2
Monday, November 14 Growth of Royal Power in Middle Ages
HW: Study
Tuesday, November 15 Unit 3 Quiz 1
DUE: What So What Cards
HW: Read / Take Notes pages 304 -309
Wednesday, November 16 Islam
HW: Ch 10, Sec 2 Summary
Thursday, November 17 Islamic Empires
HW: Ch 10, Sec 3 Summary
DUE: Honors Paper Group B
Friday, November 18 Islamic Culture
HW: Read / Take Notes pages 282 -288
DUE: Chapter 10 Study Guide Due
Week 3
Monday, November 21 Byzantine Empire
HW: Study
Tuesday, November 22 Unit 3 Quiz 2
DUE: What So What Cards
DUE: Chapter 9 Study Guide Due
HW: Get Caught Up or Work Ahead
Week 4
Monday, November 28 The Crusades
HW: Read / Take Notes pages 255 - 260
Tuesday, November 29 The Crusades
Wednesday, November 30 Medieval Culture
HW: Read / Take Notes pages 262 - 268
Thursday, December 1 Medieval Culture
HW: Study
DUE: Honors Paper Group C
Friday, December 2 Unit 3 Quiz 3
DUE: What So What Cards
DUE: Chapter 8 Study Guide Due
HW: Read / Take Notes pages 269 -275
Week 5
Monday, December 5 Crisis In The Fourteenth Century
HW: Review 269 -275
Tuesday, December 6 Crisis In The Fourteenth Century
HW: Review 269 -275
Wednesday, December 7 Crisis In The Fourteenth Century
HW: Review 269 -275
Thursday, December 8 Crisis In The Fourteenth Century
HW: Study
DUE: Honors Paper Group D
Friday, December 9 Unit 3 Quiz 4
DUE: What? So What? Cards
HW; Get caught up or work ahead
Week 6
Monday, December 12 Unit 3 Review
HW: Study
Tuesday, December 13 Unit 3 Review
HW: Study
Wednesday, December 14 Unit 3 Review
HW: Study
Thursday, December 15 Unit 3 Test
What? So What?s
Week 1
• Charlemagne
• serf
• feudalism
• papal supremacy
• manorialism
• capital
• vassal
• charter
• fief
• guild
Week 2
• Muhammad
• Abu Bakr
• hijra
• caliph
• Kaaba
• sultan
• hajj
• Justinian
• Quran
• icon
Week 3
• Crusades
• vernacular
• Pope Urban II
• Thomas Aquinas
• Reconquista
• Gothic style
• Inquisition
• Dante Alighieri
• scolasticism
• flying buttresses
Week 4
• Great Famine*
• longbow
• Black Death
• John Wycliffe*
• epidemic
• Jan Hus*
• inflation
• flagellants*
• schism
• peasant revolts*
Honors Paper Topics (see syllabus for your group)
Group A
a1. Explain how the collapse of the western Roman empire lead to a new age in Western Europe.
a2. Compare and contrast the manor economy with the kind of economy that developed in medieval towns during the commercial revolution.
a3. Explain why the pope became a powerful figure in medieval Europe.
Group B
b1. Compare and contrast traditional Bedouin society and the society that formed under Islam.
b2. Describe the split between Sunni and Shiites.
b3. Explain how the Byzantine empire preserved the heritage of the Roman empire.
Group C
c1. Explain how the rise of vernacular literature reflected a change in education and literacy in medieval Europe.
c2. Compare and Contrast the Crusades and the Reconquista.
c3. Describe how changing economic and social conditions led to the emergence of universities and to new philosophy an literature during the high Middle Ages.
Group D
d1. Examine the relationship between trade and the spread of the Black Plague.
d2. Explain the causes and outcomes of the Hundred Years War.
d3. Describe how the changing economic and social conditions, wars, and the growing power of monarchs began to build the framework for the modern nation state.
