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Unit 2 Review: The East, Islam, and Early Medieval Europe

This unit began behind walls that held for a thousand years and ends in a Europe with almost none. Everything in between was a different answer to the same question: what holds a world together?

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Lesson Goal

Bring the nine Unit 2 lessons together, check which ones hold, and send the student back to any that don't. Every hint names the lesson to reopen.

Key Vocabulary

Schism
An official split, like the one in 1054 that divided the church into the Roman Catholic and the Eastern Orthodox.
Golden age
A time when a civilization is at its best, like Baghdad's under the Abbasids.
Monastery
A community where monks live, pray and work, apart from ordinary life.
Treaty
A written agreement between rulers, like the one in 843 that divided Charlemagne's empire into three.

Where This Goes Next

Unit 3 picks up in the Europe this unit ends in, with raiders at the coast and no king strong enough to answer, and shows what grew up to fill the gap, which was feudalism.

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Before You Start

The Words

The words this lesson uses. Tap a card to see what it means, then come back to them whenever a question uses one.

Part One

The Questions

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Questions about the story you just read. Pick your answer straight off, or press Find it in the story if you would rather hunt for the sentence first.

Part Two

Vocabulary Check

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The word cards are at the top of this page. Look back at them as often as you need, then answer.

When you finish: write the answers out in your own words — not copied word for word from the choices. Saying it your own way is the part that proves you understood it. Then use Print Answer Sheet for a one-page record of what was answered and scored.
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