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Do Now. Write down everything you know about the Middle Ages. Essential Question: What did the Middle Ages bring to Europe?. Do Now. Pick the term that DOES NOT fit with the rest! Explain why you picked it ! Angkor Wat Pax Mongolia Trade Chaos/ No Control . The Middle Ages.

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  1. Do Now • Write down everything you know about the Middle Ages. • Essential Question: • What did the Middle Ages bring to Europe?

  2. Do Now • Pick the term that DOES NOT fit with the rest! Explain why you picked it! • Angkor Wat • Pax Mongolia • Trade • Chaos/ No Control

  3. The Middle Ages

  4. Essential Question: • What did the Middle Ages bring to Europe?

  5. Periodization Early Middle Ages: 500 – 1000 High Middle Ages: 1000 – 1250 Late Middle Ages: 1250 - 1500

  6. Europe in the 6 century

  7. After the Western Roman Empire falls to Germanic invaders there is a decline in safety, centralized government, and there is constant warfare and invasion.

  8. Middle Ages Not a great time to live in because: • constant threat of attack • nutrition is poor and famines are common • learning drops and most people cannot read • drop in culture • social ranks become rigid/unmovable

  9. Medieval Church • Roman Catholic Church helps to keep Europe together under the Christian religion. • People during the middle ages are very religious and many people go to church every day. • Monks and Nuns----run schools, hospitals, libraries

  10. A Medieval Monastery: The Scriptorium

  11. Illuminated Manuscripts

  12. Pope • The Pope = Leader of the Catholic Church •     More powerful than kings

  13. If you were someone who did not follow church teachings, or a heretic, you could face • EXCOMMUNICATION • which means you cannot get the sacraments and cannot go to heaven

  14. Power of church cont • Curb heresies  crusades; Inquisition • tithe  1/10 tax • Church owns 1/3 of Western Europe land

  15. Chivalry: A Code of Honor and Behavior

  16. Feudalism • Landowners (kings or lords) give a piece of theirLAND to other lords in return for LOYALTY and MILITARY SERVICE. • Under Feudalism, peasants (serfs) FARM the lord's land in return for PROTECTION and the ability to farm part of the lord's land for themselves

  17. Feudalism

  18. The Medieval Manor

  19. Pope Crowned CharlemagneHoly Roman Emperor: Dec. 25, 800

  20. Charlemagne’s Empire

  21. Agricultural Achievements • 1) better plows • 2) horseshoes for horses • 3) Three field system - fields planted were wheat, legumes (or veggies), and one field was left fallow.  This way the soil would renew its nutrients and keep pumping out huge amounts of food :)

  22. Romanesque Architectural Style • Rounded Arches. • Barrel vaults. • Thick walls. • Darker, simplistic interiors. • Small windows, usually at the top of the wall.

  23. Life on the Medieval Manor Serfs at work

  24. Carcassonne: A Medieval Castle

  25. Parts of a Medieval Castle

  26. Do Now • Please answer the following question: • Would you have rather been a knight or a peasant during the Middle Ages? Explain your answer

  27. Crusades

  28. The Crusades were a holy war to regain the Holy Land (Jerusalem and other regions where Jesus of Nazareth had lived) from the Muslims who controlled that region.

  29. Timeline • 1054- Spilt between eastern and western Christianity • 1070-Jerusalem taken by Muslims (Turks) • 1096- Pope Urban II- start the Crusades • Why Pilgrimages were very popular and did not want Muslims control the Holy Land

  30. The Crusades • First Crusades (1095-1101) -25,000-30,000 people Plundered and slaughtered Jews and Muslims Regained Jerusalem • Second- 1145-47 Jerusalem lost to Saladin (Muslims)

  31. Third (1188-92) - Won back land but not Jerusalem • Richard the Lionheart makes treaty • Fourth (1204) • Captured Constantinople for Latin Church • Many holy relics • Later Crusades failed and stopped in 1291

  32. A Successful Failure • The Crusades' main goal of reconquering the Holy Land from the Muslims ends in failure! • However successful because they: • 1) Introduce Europe to new learning and inventions (Muslims) • 2) Restarts European trade with the rest of the world

  33. 3) Helps unity of Europeans by reducing fighting among European nobles (most leave to fight crusades) • 4) End of Feudalism- rise of cities /end of serfs • 5) Europe is no longer isolated from other continents (learning increases---Greek) • 6) Trade increases population of Europe Negative---Persecutions of the Jews

  34. GD Question • In your GD groups answer the following question: • Do you think the Crusades were a good idea or a bad idea to fight for Europe?

  35. Classwork • Please complete the following: • Reading Guide- p 119-127 p 129- 134 • Textbook p 385 # 1, 3, 4, 5 p 392 # 1 and 3 • Computers and Black Plague

  36. Do Now • Please answer the following question in your notes: • In a 3-4 sentence answer, describe what the Middle Ages were?

  37. Fill in the pyramid using the following words: Serf, lord, king and knight

  38. Japan and Feudalism

  39. Japan and Feudalism • FEUDALISM DEVELOPS WHEN: • There is a lack of a centralized government • When there is a general lack of order and chaos results

  40. Geography • Japan is an ARCHIPELAGO, or chain of islands • The waters that surround Japan ISOLATE it and prevented armies from invading • The water also allowed for CULTURAL DIFFUSION from Korea and China.

  41. Religion • The native religion of Japan is SHINTO • It has no HOLY BOOKS • It is based on the worship of KAMI, or NATURE spirits • The Japanese believed that their emperor was a GOD

  42. Power • EMPERORS have no actual power  They are FIGUREHEADS

  43. BUSHIDO  The Samurai warrior code – based on honor- it demanded that a samurai be loyal to his lord and practice self-discipline. • If a samurai lost his honor he would commit hari-kiri or ritual suicide. This would return honor to the samurai and his family

  44. How was Japanese Feudalism different from European Feudalism? • In Europe lords and their vassals had a LEGAL or law-based agreement. • In Japan the connection between a samurai and their daimyo was based on MORALITY (what is right/wrong), or believing it was the right thing to do. • JAPAN WAS AN HONOR- BASED SOCIETY

  45. Classwork • Please complete the following: • Textbook - Worksheet -Define: Guild and Commercial Revolution • Reading Guide- p113-114 • Assessment Questions

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