Unit I: From Medieval to Modern through Expansion and Division

Unit I: From Medieval to Modern through Expansion and Division

Welcome to Ms. Crain’s World History Class!

Date- Wednesday September 4, 2013

1. Find a seat 2. 2. Please grab the papers up front. 3. Relax and wait for the bell to ring!

Happy first day of high school!!

Agenda:

This Year’s Class- Seating- Content- Expectations- Classroom routines/ProceduresQuestionssss??

About Me

About MeMs. Crain . . .

Graduated FDU Masters of Arts in TeachingHistory MajorPsych Minor

AthleticRunningSoccer/sports

MusicReading

HISTORY OF COURSE!

To Do

Responsibilities: 1. Bring in needed class supplies (See Syllabus)2. Have parents/guardians complete contact list

and return to class on Friday3. Complete About Me Profile and bring in for class

on Monday.

Homework:1. Current Events assignment

Friday Sept. 6, 20131. Find your name and take a seat2. Please take out your Current Events

Assignment.3. Please place your Parent contact sheet up

front.4. Copy HW

Do Now:Share your article with the person next to you

Current Events

Groups of Four Presentation

While listening Write:2 facts about the event in their articleThe relation to “history”1 question to ask the presenter about their article.

JournalWhen you hear that history repeatsitself, it may not always be the case. However, it is very true to state that the present is always connected to and often reflects the past.

How can we say this is true? What evidence you you/we have?

Intro to Middle Ages…

Previewing the chapter- Scavenger Hunt

Something to do with: (3-5 sentences)Daily lifeLeadersReligionOther

Closing

Letter to the Middle Ages:

Using the words from today create a 5 sentences of a letter they would send back in time to the Middle ages to ask about the lives of people in that time.

Home Work

“If you were a Serf”Text Book Pages

Mon. Sept 9, 2013

1. Place About me, Current Event and Parent forms in bin at front

2. Copy tonight's homework3. Complete textbook form

Do Now- If you had a land to rule how would you choose to organize it.

Agenda:

Vocab- Feudalism VassalsFiefKnightManorSerfsMagna Carta

High Middle Ages- after AD 1000

• Feudalism• Manorialism• Knights• Crusades

Early Middle Ages-Europe 900 AD

Kingdom divided into smaller and smaller states

Large landowners eventually came to hold the most power

A dangerous time

• A time of confusion• Many invasions

– Vikings from the north– Magyars from the east– Sarcens from the south

– All plunder the continent

Landowners offer protection

• Raised their own armies

• Built castles to protect people– Became LESS dependent

on kings/ central government

What issues or advantages would an empire have if the landowners/people of the land became less dependent on a central government

Feudalism emerges• A political, economic, military, and social

arrangement – complex set of relationships – Everyone had a place and role in society

Feudal System Simulation

Central Monarchy Feudal System

Centralized

One Leader, One Law

UNIFORMCOMPETING

Fragmented/ Decentralized

Many land owners with their own rules and armies

1st class workers

2nd class workers

The Feudal Social Order

Vassalage seals the relationship

• Involved fealty – Oath of loyalty taken

• Military service and advice given to lord

• Usually vassal gave 40 days a year of service

Limiting the Monarch

Magna Carta- 1. designated the rights of nobles that limited the power of the monarch2. monarchs must also obey the laws

A Manor

* After a lord receives a fief (an estate of land) he places a manor on it.

* Serfs (peasants) work and maintain the land in return for protection.

How did this feudal system work

Power and debt!1. Lords have the power to grant land to nobility/knights

... Once they have the land, they become labeled as a vassal2. The Vassals allow peasants to work on the land in exchange for protection. Many become serfs, which means they are indebted to the vassal and all their work-product is given up.

REGIONAL POWER…

Summary

Read “If you were a Serf” and answer

1. What power did the “people” of The Feudal system have in their own life?

2. Write a brief journal entry describing life on a manor.

HW

• Read pgs 26-27 answer questions 2-4

Tues

Peasants and the Feudal system cont’

P 4

What is the difference…

Between serfs and peasants..

Create a 5 sentence summary detailing the difference

No matter which you are..

This is your life…

Read the handout and answer the questions given

High Middle Ages- after AD 1000

• Feudalism• Manorialism• Knights• Crusades

Remember…

In the early middle ages,-There was no strong government

-too much land and too little man power of one king to handle it

-Chaos and confusion- Violent and threatening invasions

Now that land owners have more power…..Feudalism emerges

• A political, economic, military, and social arrangement – Based on land division and ruling of separate

“landlords”– complex set of relationships – Everyone had a place and role in society

Feudal Simulation

Being a part of Medieval Times!!

Who are you??!!

Reflection.. What was the purpose

P8

Reflect… Explain why we can call feudalism a social and economic system?

Remember…

In the early middle ages,-There was no strong government

-too much land and too little man power of one king to handle it

-Chaos and confusion- Violent and threatening invasions

Vassalage seals the relationship

• Also called fealty – Oath of loyalty taken

• Military service and advice given to lord

• Usually vassal gave 40 days a year of service

Limiting the Monarch

Magna Carta- 1. designated the rights of nobles that limited the power of the monarch2. monarchs must also obey the laws

No matter which you are..

This is your life…

Read the handout and answer the questions given

Feudal Simulation

Being a part of Medieval Times!!

Who are you??!!

Reflection.. What was the purpose

Study Guides

Medieval Church Speed Dating!

3 Stations

About 5-7 minutes at each station to read the given handout and complete the matching page in your packet.

1. The Church and The State2. Salvation and Damnation (Church for the common People)3. The Church’s Power

Packet Correction

Page 1 Question 3

Replace the word KING with CHURCH

The Catholic Church

Struggle for and growth of Power

In Law (Canon Law)

In Daily Life (For the People)

Background

• European society was dominated by the Catholic Church since the fall of Roman Empire

– Popes very powerful

Struggles for power emerge

• Question?– Who is more

powerful?• A King or the Pope?

Fought over:• Who gets to appoint

high ranking church officials?

• Who can levy taxes?

versus

The Church grows in power

• Became more organized in middle ages

• Started to challenge kings for political power– Developed canon law (Church

Law)– Taking over financial outlets

(taxes)

• Connected to monarch so profited from the kingdom.– Elaborate Cathedrals,

Churches, and Monasteries

What could canon law (Church law) do?

• Could excommunicate members– Removal from church

• Could Prevent the giving of the sacraments

• You needed them to get to heaven

• Popes used canon law to get kings to submit to the WILL of the church

Damnation or Salvation?*Greater fear of an afterlife then of kings laws

Excommunication was harsh!

Indulgences

“a free pass” for some punishment that could be given after the admission of sin

Church started selling them!

For the common person

All aspects of Life for peasants

Teachers and Healers

Taxes and rule over land

Impact

What they say goes..

Always strive the be pious which means listening to the church

Crusades

Summary

Compare the powers of the Church in the Middle Ages to today..

Friday 9/13 2013

Do Now- Imagine if you were promised all the riches and salvation this world and beyond could offer… only if you would pledge to go on an adventure to another land? Would you go? Why/ why not?

The Crusades: a Snap Shot

What- Holy Wars fought against the Muslims in the East.

Who- The Catholic Church “aid” Byzantines fighting the Muslims. Pope Urban II in Rome calls the shots.

When- 11th–13th century (150 years and 9 of them)

Where- The Middle East

The People of the Crusades

The Nobles and Knights-Had equipment and finances to have their own organized armies.

The Peasants-“the common people who had little property, but were very numerous”- Guibert of NogentEVEN CHILDREN!

So the four main reasons why people went on Crusades were…

The Church

• Those pesky Knights

• To take back Jerusalem and stop Islam spreading

into Europe. =POWER

The People

• To fight a Holy War and go to Heaven.

• The Adventure! (10 miles max!!)

Byzantines: Uh-oh…

Rome: Maybe we should help

out…

In 1095, Pope Urban II preached a sermon asking people to go on a crusade. His plan was to take the Holy Land away from the Turks.

So the four main reasons why people went on Crusades were…

• Those pesky Knights

• To take back Jerusalem and stop

Islam spreading into Europe.

• To fight a Holy War and go to Heaven.

• The Adventure!

In with the NEW

Trade

Culture

Ideologies/Thought

Read your assigned sections

Fill in your part of the chart with at least 3-5 points describing the effect of the crusades.5 minute!

Category Effect

Church

Finance/Commerce

Feudalism

Political

Social

Intellectual

Wealth and PowerInfluence of the Pope

Need for Supplies= ups supply/demandNew goods and trade options

BreakdownNo internal competition

No more feudal- power to the KINGSRise of Cities

Adventure and Pride

New thought from Islamic LibrariesNew weapons and materials (building)

The crusaders brought back new ideas about building castles and improved weapons.

Decorating: brought back carpets which they hung on walls as well as putting them on the floors.

European scholars gained access to Classical Greek and Roman learning and thought that had survived thanks to Arabic scholars.

On a bright note… What did people gain from the crusades?

Trade between Europe and the Middle East increased and sugar, rice, apricots and cotton were brought to England for the first time.

Look at the motivations and effects of the Crusades..Would you go?

What might stop you?

Summary

Tues 9/17

What catastrophes have we dealt with in today’s society?

How were they managed?

What effects did they have?

The Symptoms

Bulbous

Septicemic Form:

almost 100% mortality rate.

Activity 1Read the Handout and answer the given questions.

Plague Snap Shot!When: 1348–50 CE

Where: Asia/Europe

What: Fast spreading disease that caused a pandemic and wiped out large populations

How: Mongol tribes settled in an area with fleas.. Hitched a ride and gave the disease!Flung infected bodies into the city=spread!! From there merchant ships carried it into ports and rats in the cities became infected

Dance of Death

Attempts to Stop the Plague

A Doctor’s Robe

“Leeching”

Attempts to Stop the PlaguePograms against the

Jews

“Jew” hat

“Golden Circle” obligatory badge

• Lost population• Famine- not enough

workers for food• Economy in city-

towns suffered- Merchants were not coming in to the cities

EffectsEconomic Social

• Jews blamed- pogroms

• Literature & art reflect pessimism– Dance of Death

common motif (fascination with death)

– Population decline

35-70%- 25,000,000 dead !!!

Summary

Ring Around the Rosie

Read the Story behind this infamous children’s rhyme..

Create your own rhyme that details the Plague and its effects (must be at least a 4-5 line poem)

Wed 18

• Review

Up Coming Issues…

Towards the end of the Middle Ages:

Excess of rowdiness, restlessness and troublesome knights

Out with the old indirect, in with the new direct- personal connection to God

What will be the fate of the Catholic Church?

Church- Problems get worse…• Great Schism (c. 1377-1417) (Western Schism or

Papal Schism)– Further conflict occurred in 1377 with election of two

popes—one in Rome, one in France (Avignon)– Tried to excommunicate each

other– Further hurt prestige of church

• Public relations disaster-confusing

• Crusades= Rise in $$ gave way for less interest in religion and more interest in the private economy sector…

• Plague- start with a faith in the church, end with a biological explanation and a looser attribution to religion

Oh yea, not to mention the attack on Constantinople during the Crusades?!

Who is the real Pope?

– How did the Crusades impact the Feudal system?- Thousands of barons and knights mortgaged or sold their lands in

order to raise money for a crusading expedition.- Other Lords failed at organizing good heirs to their land.- Private warfare, die out. Which puts less concern on protection.- The peasant's experience- Increased the power of kings- Accelerated the rise of cities since the feudal lords needed the

cities’ help to finance their trips.

– How did the Plague impact the Feudal system?- Death toll- labor shortages gave leverage to the serfs.- The fear of death overrode the fear of the lords.

Brain Storm- How was the Feudal system effected at the end of the Middle Ages?

Review

Thurs 9/19

• Quiz and Renn Art Gallery