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 Sixth Grade Social Studies: Ancient History to 1600 A. D.

__Unit Title:__ Middle Ages - Feudalism

 __Unit Summary__ Students will investigate and discover how feudalism developed and how it affected and was affected by European culture in the following areas: history, daily living, geography, economy, religion, contributions and government. Students will simulate feudalism by acting out a skit as a group, having created the skit using a wiki. Students will individually create a powepoint fully explaining the roles and social areas of feudalism. Both mediums will be presented to a peer audience. __Essential Question:__ How did people move from survival mode to an organized, thriving civilization during the Middle Ages?

__ Unit Questions: __  How did Geography influence where medieval Europeans settled and what they did? Who were the early barbarians that settled Europe? How did the Franks, Angles and Saxons of Western Europe build new societies and defend them against the Muslims, Magyars and Vikings? How was the Catholic Church important? How did Christianity spread throughout Europe? What is feudalism? How did feudalism adapt to fit society and how did society adapt to fit feudalism?  How did trade change during this time and how did affect the barbarian cultures? Compare civilizations who first started settling in villages to the people of the middle ages. Compare and Contrast the governments of other ancient civilizations we have studied to those of the Middle Ages.  __Content Questions:__ Define Feudalism. Define Manorial system.  Define nation states. Define monarchy. Research and retrieve information on each of the roles in Feudalism: Royalty, Lords/Ladies, Knights, and peasants/serfs. Identify, interpret and clarify the relationship between roles in feudalism. Analyze the relationship of the Catholic Church and feudalism and daily life. Infer the relationship between nation states, manorial systems, and the use of feudalism to govern inside the manor and outside the manor. Analyze the economy of Europe in the MiddleAges under the feudal/manorial system.

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