History 11

The World We Study: 1100–1616

One interactive timeline of the year: events, people, and the books Literature reads alongside us. Opens in a new tab.

Crusades reference, 1095–1291

The dates, the geography, and the names, from Clermont to the fall of Acre. A skeleton to keep the order straight while you read the sources, plus the questions we will argue in class.

Where the pilgrims went

The map that goes with the Clari reading, binder pp. 4–8. Eight steps: the lordships the army came from, why it stopped at Venice, and the road from a debt to the sack of a Christian city. The dashed line is the Egypt they were paid to reach and never saw.

How medieval people organized their work

A click-through on the guilds: the four types, the apprentice to journeyman to master ladder, what your guild decided for you and what that cost you, and how the first universities began as guilds, with a map of where they were, who ran them, what was spoken in their streets, and where the scholar-saints studied and taught. Terms are defined on the page. There is a quiz on the four types, and a set of questions we will argue about in class.

Build a Guild: the project sheet

Two sides. The masterwork and the charter, the dates, how to write an Item in formal language, and how the project is graded. The back has the twelve questions, six for each master, and three rules the spur makers of London wrote in 1345. Guild Day is Tuesday, October 20.

Spain before it was Spain, 711–1492

The Unit 2 chapter. A map you can slide from the conquest of 711 to the fall of Granada, colored by who held each region; Pelayo and Covadonga, with a fact-or-legend sorter; the six kingdom cards (Asturias and León, Navarre, Castile, Aragon, Portugal, Catalonia), each with its own map, plus the chart and the word list from the printed set; El Cid's career one step at a time, and where to slow down in the source on his death ride; the seven dates; the questions we will argue; a fifteen-question self-quiz. The two lists of Christian and Islamic states light up on the map, which doubles as practice for the September 21 map quiz.

Drill for the map quizzes

Modern Europe, Spain, France, Italy, and Europe in 1500. It asks where a place is, you click, and the map fills in as you go. It remembers what you missed and asks those again. Opens in a new tab.

Christendom in 1200 and in 1600

The same continent four hundred years apart. Drag the handle across the map and watch one Church become many. Two editions: the maps we use in class, and the printed atlas plates they were checked against. Opens in a new tab.