Middle+Age

Activity #2

Power point 1.
1. What 2 reasons did the Roman empire cease to be a powerful empire? -Its architecture was Hellenistic and its road system  was as impressive as that of the Inca in South America 2. Name 2 examples of Rule of Law -Nobody is above the lawm not the king, not the senate, not the people, not the police. 3. What was the economic system of the Middle Ages in Europe? -Sometimes a republican democracy, Rome had a senate where patricians could represent people 4. Under Feudalism, what responsibility does a knight have? What does he give in return? -Knights let Serfs work the land and he would protect them. 5.In what year did William of Normandy invade England? -1066 6. What were the Crusades? -A serious of battles between the Christians and the Muslims in the Middle East 7. What era (time period) describes the time of Greece and Rome? -500 B.C.- 600 A.D. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">8. What year was the Magna Carta signed? <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">-1215 <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">9. What was the Churches role during the Middle Ages? <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">-Priests and nuns converted, gave care to people

Define:
<span style="color: #0f0d0d; display: block; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline;"> -Dark Age: __ Dark Ages __ (500 CE- 1000 CE)- scholars named this as a time when the forces of darkness (barbarians) overwhelmed the forces of light (Romans) <span style="color: #0f0d0d; display: block; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline;"> -Barbarian: Roman Emperors -Heresy: holding beliefs that contradict the official religion

<span style="color: #0f0d0d; display: block; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline;"> -Monks: Monks were people who gave up worldly possessions and devote themselves to  a religious life

<span style="color: #0f0d0d; display: block; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline;"> -Justinian Code: “Body of Civil Law” that defined civil law in the Middle Ages and the modern world <span style="color: #0f0d0d; display: block; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline;"> -Salic Law: assigned a specific financial value to everyone and everything <span style="color: #0f0d0d; display: block; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline;"> -Primogeniture: system where eldest son inherited everything (instead of dividing land / property / wealth) <span style="color: #0f0d0d; display: block; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline;"> -Fief: land given by a lord in return for a vassal’s military service and oath of loyalty <span style="color: #0f0d0d; display: block; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline;"> -Tithe: tax that serfs paid (tax or rent) <span style="color: #0f0d0d; display: block; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline;"> -Serf: aka villeins or common peasants who worked the lords land <span style="color: #0f0d0d; display: block; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline;"> -corvee: condition of unpaid labour by serfs (maintaining roads or ditches on a manor)

Who Were:
<span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline;"> St. Augustine:wrote “Confessions” which discussed ideas of ethics, self knowledge, and the role of free will which shaped monastic tradition and the influence of Church <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Justinian the Great:Byzantine Emperor

<span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Clovis I: Leader in 481 CE

<span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Charlemagne:Greatest legacy was Charles the Great

William the Conqueror :King of England and ordered the Doomsday Book

Questions:
1. Who were the Barbarians and what did they do? They were Roman Emporers and provided Military Service.

2. What was the relationship between the King and the Church? The Church was granted favours by the King and in return the Church would endorse kings to help secure their rule.

3. What is Monasticism? A religeous way of life characterized by the practice of renouncing worldly pursuits to full devote one's self to spiritual world.

4. How did Feudalism work? Feudalism worked because of the notion of obligation or voluntary co-operation from serf to noble

5. What was the Plague and what was its effect? A disease of the skin in which the sufferers skin would black due to hemorrhages under the skin - spread by fleas and rats

6. What do you think was the most important idea, invention, or figure from this time and why? I think the Parliamentary Government of England would be the most important one because thats where the government started there, and thats how the government developed like it is today.

Power Point 3.
1) Feudalism was a social, political, and economic system that dominated all aspects of medieval life.

2) The economic portion of feudalism was centered around the lord's estates or manor.

3) Spiritual: Religion was a central part of life for medieval people from baptism to marriage. Secular: In addition to being the social center of the village, the church had economic power and political power. The Church was the largest landholder, gained wealth through tithing and had its own laws and courts which frequently clashed with King’s authority. Some parish priests ran schools.

4) The reasons for the crusades were because the pope wanted to increase his power, nobles wanted to gain wealth, Serfs hoped to escape feudal oppression.

5) This fundamentally altered the way people lived in Europe, and marked the beginning of the end of feudalism as serfs began to pay their feudal obligations with cash instead of service. An economy based on money, not barter emerged.

6) It was a golden age in the arts, literature and sciences. Large city-states in northern Italy, Thriving centers of trade and manufacturing

7) Enjoyment of Worldly Pleasures.

8) Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci

9) Books became more available, literacy increased, ideas spread rapidly.

10) Problems within the church. Corruption among church leaders. Increased fees for marriage, baptism and indulgences for the pardon of sins.

11) Promoted radical idea that faith in God alone, not the Pope granted pardon for sins.

12) Strengthen the Catholic Church and keep Catholics from converting to Protestantism.

Activity 3.