Unit 1

Renaissance: The Origins of a Western Worldview

Targets
Skill Builders

Chapter 1 Summary

After completing Chapter 1, you should be able to answer the Big Question:

  • How can changing social structures change a society's worldview?

The following smaller questions you studied in Chapter 1 will help you answer the Big Question.


  1. What effect could a dramatic event have on citizens of any society?
  2. How are people's attitudes and values shaped by the way a society is organized?
  3. What were the challenges to feudalism?

Download the graphic organizer seen in Figure 1.1 to help you review Chapter 1.

Remember to review the vocabulary for Chapter 1.

  • Black Death
  • feudalism
  • freeman
  • hierarchy
  • journeyman
  • Medieval
  • Renaissance
  • serf
  • sumptuary laws
  • tithe
  • worldview


Figure 1.1 - Chapter 1 Graphic Organizer