AC9HH8K05 Year 8 Humanities and Social Sciences

Content descriptor the role and achievements of a significant individual and/or group in Medieval, Renaissance or pre-modern Europe

Elaborations

Medieval Europe

• • Elaboration explaining the influence and dominance of the Catholic Church on society using visual sources such as the illustration of Hell in the Hortus Deliciarum manuscript by Herrad of Landsberg
• • Elaboration investigating the role of the Catholic Church in Medieval Europe in the provision of social services such as education, health care and social welfare, and in feudal village organisation

The Renaissance

• • Elaboration explaining the influence of the Medici family in Florence as bankers and merchants, and their patronage of the arts
• • Elaboration explaining the influences and contributions of individuals such as Lucrezia Borgia, Galileo, Leonardo da Vinci, Niccolo Machiavelli, Martin Luther and Louis XIV

The emergence of the modern world

• • Elaboration investigating the role and achievements of Henry VIII, Elizabeth I and Martin Luther
• • Elaboration investigating the importance of the Scientific Revolution, in particular the scientific theories and discoveries of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler and Newton, for overturning traditional views of the motion of the planets, and how these contributed to science being seen by many as an alternative to the Church as a source of fundamental truth about reality
• • Elaboration investigating the role and significance of Oliver Cromwell and the execution of Charles I in the English Civil War in the development of the Westminster parliamentary system