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Warm -up. Copy HW Please examine page 40 and read page 41 in your Green Textbook Start today’s notes by make a list of descriptive words and phrases about a medieval town: T his will be page 8. Essential Questions. What happens when societies are faced with adversity?
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Warm -up • Copy HW • Please examine page 40 and read page 41 in yourGreen Textbook • Start today’s notes by make a list of descriptive words and phrases about a medieval town: This will be page 8
Essential Questions • What happens when societies are faced with adversity? • How do societies stabilize in the face of adversity?
Describe the Town • Wall • Dirty • Built around a castles • Illiterate, so colorful signs • Church/monastery • Unpaved streets • Crowded • industrious
Jigsaw Activity • Please work with your group to research information about towns in the Middle Ages and then present that research to the class. • 5 minutes read your section silently and take notes • 5 minutes compare notes as a groups and decide who will present which information
Growth • Surplus of crops or market • Specialization • Trading became more popular again • Controlled by Lord or church at first • Eventually town residents became more independent by purchasing royal charters
Trade and Commerce • Sold and traded luxury goods at first • By the high Middle Ages-food, clothes and household items • Markets and merchant fairs • Merchant guilds become powerful!!!!! • Since Jews were discriminated against they became money lenders (bankers) which was often forbidden by the Christian church
Homes and Households Poor-small/crowded/wood/leaned Wealthy merchants-large homes but, cold/dim/smoky ½ of kids died before adulthood Some boys learned to read and write many became apprentices Many girls married by 15 and started a family People believed in order and everyone knew their “place”
Disease and Medical Treatment • Dirty=Diseases (measles, cholera, leprosy) • No running water • Trash in the streets • Rats and fleas • Few hospitals and doctors • Doctors used a combination and prayer and medicine • “Bleeding” was popular
Crime and Punishment • Unsafe….Dark at night • Dirty jails • Trial by ordeal (thrown into a well) • Trial by combat • Punishment- fines, put in the stocks, killed • More fair courts and judges developed btw. 1100-1300 C.E.
Leisure and Entertainment • Chess, checker, cards, dancing… • Parades with music • Biblical/Miracle plays
Please Create a T-chartcomparing towns then and now Europe: The Middle Ages America: 2014