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Warm up. Copy HW Please grab a Green Textbook Please take the three handouts from the front desks and make them pages 2,3 and 4 of your New Middle Ages Notebook Please complete the “Loyalty” activity on your new page #2 : 6 minutes. What is Loyalty?.
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Warm up • Copy HW • Please grab a Green Textbook • Please take the threehandouts from the front desks and make them pages 2,3 and 4 of your New Middle Ages Notebook • Please complete the “Loyalty” activity on your new page #2: 6 minutes
What is Loyalty? A feeling of strong support for someone or something Faithfulness to commitments or obligations
Essential Questions • What happens when societies are confronted with change? • How do societies stabilize in the face of adversity?
The Middle Ages Time in European history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance
Success of Western Civilization Greeks/Romans ~ Year “0” Present/Future Early Neolithic Revolution ~5000 B.C.E. Renaissance ~1500 B. C. E. Fall of Rome 476 C.E. 10,000 BCE end of last Ice Age DARK/MIDDLE AGES ~1000 C.E.
Political Geography of Europe Roman Empire: Pax Romana Kingdoms of the Middle Ages
What was life like after the fall of Rome? • Dangerous • People had to work hard just to survive
Invasions • Vikings: North • Muslims: North Africa and the Middle East • Magyars: Central Asia
What was the solution???? Feudalism
Feudalism • A social structure during the Middle Ages that held society together • Political and economic system based on bonds (Loyalty) btw. Lords and vassals
Fiefs Manors Large estates; including a castle, or manor house, a village and surrounded by farmland Land granted by a lord to a vassal in exchange for loyalty and service
Monarchs: page 21 • Kings and Queens • Got their power from: God, their family , or military conquest • Relied on the vassals to provide knights and soldiers
William The Conqueror • Invaded England • Brought Feudalism to England in • 1066 C.E.
Lords and Ladies: pages 22/23 • Lords- managed land defended land acted as judges • Ladies- helped run estates acted as judges raised children
Knights: pages 24 and 25 • Soldiers on horseback • Most were wealthy • Knights were expected to be loyal to the Church and their lord, be just and fair, and protect the helpless
Peasants and Serfs: pages 26 and 27 • Worked the land • Grind the grain at the mill • Some were craftsman • Fought in wars • Free or not free??? • Homes were… • Smokey • Crowed • Dark
Social Mobility • People were born into a social class for life • They had the same social position, and often the same job as their parents. • How does this compare to America today?
Closure • Please write down the answers to the following questions and be prepared to share your answers with the class… 1. Why is the Middle Ages called the Middle Ages? 2. What is feudalism; and why was it needed? 3. Explain the role of the monarch, lord and peasant in the Middle Ages?
Middle Ages A period of chaos and confusion from 476 C.E. until 1450 C.E. This time period bridged the gap between the fall of Rome and the Renaissance
Feudalism • A social structure that used loyalty to establish order and security after the fall of the Roman Empire