Renaissance and the Beginnings of Global Exchange: Social Studies Unit 8, Grade 7 (Letters & Devotion)

Description

Renaissance and the Beginnings of Global Exchange is Unit 8 of World Geography and the Medieval World, 500-1500 CE (Grade 7), the Letters & Devotion Social Studies course, complete in one printable PDF: 10 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 63 pages.

• Italian city-states’ Mediterranean trade position as entry point for recovered knowledge
• Printing press diffusion in Europe versus Song China printing technology
• Regional origins of compass, astrolabe, and gunpowder weapons
• Geographic and economic motives for Portuguese and Spanish voyages
• Whose voice is missing in Spanish versus Indigenous accounts of first contact
• Costs and benefits of the Columbian Exchange for named groups
• Seven-region comparison across government structure, trade dependence, geography, and belief
• Unequal benefits of cross-regional contact and exchange across the medieval world
• Government-structure vocabulary applied to an unstudied society
• Central claim of a secondary source on the Columbian Exchange

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

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