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HSS-7.8 Students analyze the origins, accomplishments, and geographic diffusion of the Renaissance.

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Detail advances made in literature, the arts, science, mathematics, cartography, engineering, and the understanding of human anatomy and astronomy (e.g., by Dante Alighieri, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo di Buonarroti Simoni, Johann Gutenberg, William Shakespeare).

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Students analyze the historical developments of the Reformation.

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HSS-7.9 Students analyze the historical developments of the Reformation.

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List the causes for the internal turmoil in and weakening of the Catholic church (e.g., tax policies, selling of indulgences).

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HSS-7.9 Students analyze the historical developments of the Reformation.

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Describe the theological, political, and economic ideas of the major figures during the Reformation (e.g., Desiderius Erasmus, Martin Luther, John Calvin, William Tyndale).

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HSS-7.9 Students analyze the historical developments of the Reformation.

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Explain Protestants’ new practices of church self-government and the influence of those practices on the development of democratic practices and ideas of federalism.

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HSS-7.9 Students analyze the historical developments of the Reformation.

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Identify and locate the European regions that remained Catholic and those that became Protestant and explain how the division affected the distribution of religions in the New World.

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HSS-7.9 Students analyze the historical developments of the Reformation.

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Analyze how the Counter-Reformation revitalized the Catholic church and the forces that fostered the movement (e.g., St. Ignatius of Loyola and the Jesuits, the Council of Trent).

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HSS-7.9 Students analyze the historical developments of the Reformation.

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Understand the institution and impact of missionaries on Christianity and the diffusion of Christianity from Europe to other parts of the world in the medieval and early modern periods; locate missions on a world map.

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HSS-7.9 Students analyze the historical developments of the Reformation.

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Describe the Golden Age of cooperation between Jews and Muslims in medieval Spain that promoted creativity in art, literature, and science, including how that cooperation was terminated by the religious persecution of individuals and groups (e.g., the Spanish Inquisition and the expulsion of Jews and Muslims from Spain in 1492).

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Students relate the moral and ethical principles in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, in Judaism, and in Christianity to the development of Western political thought.