2/10/16 1 • I can explain and evaluate the significance of the re opening of the Silk Road. SPI 7.45 Summarize the effects and implica>ons of the reopening of the ancient Silk Road between Europe and China, including Marco Polo’s travels and the loca>on of his routes. • It seems strange that the Black Death had any posi>ve results, but it did. • The death toll was terrible, but the disease did not damage the farmland, buildings, ships, machines, or gold. • What do you think this led to?
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• I can explain and evaluate the significance of the re-‐opening of the Silk Road.
SPI 7.45 Summarize the effects and implica>ons of the reopening of the ancient Silk Road between Europe and China, including Marco Polo’s travels and the loca>on of his routes.
• It seems strange that the Black Death had any posi>ve results, but it did.
• The death toll was terrible, but the disease did not damage the farmland, buildings, ships, machines, or gold.
• What do you think this led to?
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Trade began to increase and new goods became available. RECAP: What increased/decreased during the Middle Ages?
• The Chinese and Romans did business together from about 0-‐200AD.
• Products moved between east and west along the Silk Road.
• This route started in China and ended at the Mediterranean Sea
• RECAP: When did the Middle Ages occur?
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• When the Roman Empire and the Han Dynasty fell, soldiers no longer protected travelers. So the use of the Silk Road declined.
• In the 1200s Mongols took over China. They once again made the roads safer to travel for travelers and traders. One of the travelers were Marco Polo.
• RECALL: Who was Marco Polo?
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• The Polos traveled from Europe to China where they saw many amazing things, such as paper money, and coal used for fuel.
• Kublai Khan invited Marco Polo to stay with them for a while and made him a government official.
• Polo wrote about China-‐ this made Europeans very curious about Asia and they started to desire the Asian goods!
• Trade with Asia began again, so they opened the Silk Road again.
• Merchants organized a great deal of the trade. • Florence, Genoa, Milan, and Venice began to become trading ci>es.
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Bri>sh Rise to Power
I can explain how Henry V, the Hundred Years’ War, and Joan of Arc are related
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The Hundred Years’ War • Lasted from 1337 un>l 1443. • The dispute began over the status of Aquitaine (it belonged to the kings of England but was a fief of the French Crown) England wanted the land independent of France
• Also the kings of England were the closest rela>ves of Charles IV who died in 1328. The Bri>sh kings felt this rela>onship en>tled them to the French throne.
Hundred Years’ War • England experienced a series of victories over France
• By sea at Sluys 1340 • By land at Crecy 1346 & Poi>ers 1356
• In 1360 King John of France was forced(in order to keep his throne) to accept the Treaty of Calais which granted independence to Aquitaine which had enlarged to about a 1/3 of France
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Hundred Years’ War • John’s son Charles V reconquered almost of this territory by 1380 • The war was at rest un>l King Henry V renewed the war and was victorious at Agincourt in 1415 and Normandy 1417 – 1418
King Henry V
Hundred Years’ War •Henry V akempted to have himself crowned king of France with the Treaty of Troyes in 1420. •Henry V died of dysentery in 1422.
Page of Treaty of Troyes
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Hundred Years’ War • A young French peasant girl, Joan of Arc, believed that God had chosen her to lead France to victory
• She convinced Prince Charles of Valois to allow her to lead the French army to free the besieged city of Orleans.
• In 1429 Joan and her army achieved an incredible victory and freed the city
• The prince was crowned King Charles VII • Later, while akemp>ng to free Paris, Joan of Arc was
captured.
• She was sent to England where she was tried and found guilty of witchcrao and heresy and burned at the stake in 1431. She was 19.
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Hundred Years’ War • In 1431 Henry VI took the throne of England. He was an incompetent leader and England began losing bakles and territory to France.
• France won a series of bakles and freed other occupied ci>es, Paris and Ile-‐de-‐France 1436 – 1441
• Charles VII recaptured Normandy in 1450 and Guyenne(Aquitaine) in 1453
• With this the war was over. England realized it would be unable to defeat the French troops.
• By 1453 the only land England s>ll controlled was the port city of Calais.
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