Late Medieval Learning Objectives
1. Identify examples of improvements in transportation, communication, and technology and explain how they have
facilitated cultural diffusion among peoples around the world.
2. Describe achievements by the Islamic civilizations and how these achievements were introduced into Western
Europe.
3. Explain how trade routes connecting Africa, Europe, and Asia fostered the spread of ideas, technology, goods,
and major world religions.
4. Explain how the decline of feudalism in Western Europe and consolidation of power resulted in the emergence of
nation states.
5. Explain how trade leads to specialization and interdependence.
6. Analyze how the distribution of resources leads to specialization and trade.
7. Describe how geographic factors promote or impede the movement of people, products and ideas.
8. Describe how market exchanges encouraged specialization and the transition from barter to monetary
economies.
9. Explain how the growth of cities and empires fostered the growth of markets.
10. Describe how empires in Asia (China, Mongols, Mughals, Byzantine, and Ottoman) grew as commercial and cultural centers along trade routes (Silk Route).
11. Explain how Greek democracy and the Roman Republic influenced the structure and function of modern democratic governments (through the Magna Carta).
Items for Notes
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Islam notes
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Black Death notes
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Magna Carta notes
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