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

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Explain the importance of Florence in the early stages of the Renaissance and the growth of independent trading cities (e.g., Venice), with emphasis on the cities’ importance in the spread of Renaissance ideas.

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

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Understand the effects of the reopening of the ancient “Silk Road” between Europe and China, including Marco Polo’s travels and the location of his routes.

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

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Describe the growth and effects of new ways of disseminating information (e.g., the ability to manufacture paper, translation of the Bible into the vernacular, printing).

Overarching Standard:
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.

Overarching Standard:
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.

Overarching Standard:
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).