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Political Crisis and the Plague

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Objectives:

1. Identify the process by which historians interpret history and analyze differing interpretations

2.  Describe how dynastic warfare and popular uprising were related in the 14^th century

3.  Evaluates the demographic, economic, and psychological consequences of the plague

4.  Explains how the papacy lost and then recovered authority in the late middle ages

5.  Gives examples of the new secular culture of the 14^th century and evaluates how it was different from previous society

 Topic A: The Basics

What you need to know about AP Euro

1. course goals, expectations, syllabus

2. reading notes/ symbol annotation

3. Review book purchase

 Topic B: Historiography

Concepts:

1. What is History?
2. Stacked timeline
3. Competing interpretations
4. Bias and perspective in writing

 Topic C: Ch 13: The Crisis of Late Medieval Society

Concepts:

1. Political Crisis across Europe (467-482)
   1. The changing nature of warfare 468-469
   2. The Hundred Years’ War 1337-1453 469-476
   3. Popular Uprisings  476-478
   4. Imperial Fragmentation an Eastern European State Building 478-480
   5. Multiethnic states on the Frontiers 480-482

2. The Plague and Society (482- 488)
   1. Rise and Spread of the Plague 482-484
   2. Responses to the Plague: Flagellants and Anti-Semitism 485-486
   3. Consequences of the Plague 486-487

3. Challenges to Spiritual Authority (488- 493)
   1. The Papal Monarchy and its Critics  488-489
   2. The Great Schism, 1348-1417  489
   3. The Conciliar Movement  489-491
   4. Dissenters and Heretics  491-492
   5. The Hussite Revolution  492-493

4. The Social Order and Cultural Change (493-503)
   1. The Household  493-496
   2. The Underclass   496
   3. Hard times  for trade  496-497
   4. The Flourishing of Vernacular Literature and the Birth of Humanism  497-500