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Middle Ages

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After the Fall • The Decline Roman empire lead to an era

called the Middle ages

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Invasion affect in Europe

• Constant invasions and constant welfare lead to:– Disruption on trade – Downfall of cities– Population shift

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Disruption on Trade

• Invasion cause a collapse in trading.

• Money became scarce

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Downfall of cites

• Cities abandoned as centers of government

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Population shift • Nobles left cities and went to rural areas– City dwellers left with the leadership to grow their

own food• Population becomes mostly rural

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Germanic invaders• Could not read or write• Different languages spring up • Lived in small communities• Family ties and personal loyalty made it hard

to establish an orderly government

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The church

• Most priests and church officials could read and write

• Churches provided stability during the Middle ages

• Their authority grew

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Monasteries• Monasteries- a religious community– Monks learned to read and write– Opened schools– Maintained libraries – Copied books

• Help spread Christianity

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The Church authority • Pope became secular leader– Secular- Worldy, power involved in politics– The entire western roman empire fell under the

pope’s authority • Spiritual kingdom

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Feudalism

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Feudal society

• Based on mutual obligations• In exchange for military

service a lord grants land (fief) to a vassal (a person receiving a fief)

• Control depended on the amount of land one controlled

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Feudal System

• Kings• Nobles (also priest)• Knights• Landless peasants

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Feudal society

• Social classes well defined• Born into the class• Most people were serfs• Could not lawfully leave the place they were

born

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Manor

• Manor-the lords estate• Depended on a set of

rights and obligations between a lord and his serf

• Self sufficient community

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The Franks• The Franks emerged as

the leading force in Gaul

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Clovis• Clovis was their leader– Wife urged him to convert

to Christianity – 496-in fighting against an

another Germanic tribe Clovis appealed to the Christian god• Wins• Asked bishop to baptize his

army

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The Church Response• The church in Rome welcomes Clovis

conversion and supported his military campaigns

• Alliance between the Frankish kings and the church begins

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Charlemagne• 771 Charlemagne seized control of the Gaul

kingdom – Conquered new lands (most of western Europe)– Becomes most powerful king in Europe

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Charlemagne and the Church

• Went to Rome to crush an unruly mob that attacked the pope– Crowned Emperor

• The pope claimed political right to crown an emperor

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Governing the Empire

• Limited the Nobles– Had Royal agents to make sure nobles govern their

countries fairly • Regularly visited every part of the kingdom

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Cultural Revival

• Encouraged learning• Opened school that were to train future

monks and priest• Built more churches• Built roads to connect the empire

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Germanic tribes migration

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• Anglos and the Saxons migrated from the continent of Europe to England

• Magyars migrated from Central Asia to Hungary – Captured people to sell as slaves

• Vikings migrated from Scandinavia to Russia– Worshiped war like gods– Raided places quickly

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Bellringer• Pull out reading packet • Begin reading Chapter 14 sec 1 & 2

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Agenda• Reading • Discussion• Notes • Book work

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Late Middle Ages• 1000’s spiritual revival

happens throughout Europe– “Age of Faith”– Pope and religious leaders

reform the Church – Church becomes stronger

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The Crusades

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The Crusades• Byzantine Emperor Alexius Commenis sent an

appeal to Robert, Count of Flanders– Also gets read by Pope Urban II– Asked for help against the Muslim Turks– Urban II called for an “holy War” (Crusades)

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Goal– Must gain control of the Holy land and Jerusalem!

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Other Causes• King and Church saw the crusades

as an opportunity to get rib of the arguing Knights– Knights fighting each other– Threatened peace of kingdoms– Those who fought are called

crusaders

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THE FIRST CRUSADES

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First Crusade• Crusaders ill prepared– Did not know the • Geography• Climate• Culture

– Of the holy land

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First Crusade cont. • Has no Strategy• Argued among themselves• Captured Jerusalem In 1099• Set up for Crusader States around Jerusalem– Each ruled by a European noble

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THE SECOND CRUSADES

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Second Crusade• States vulnerable to

Muslim attacks• Second crusade was to

recapture Jerusalem • City instead falls to the

Muslim leader Saladin– Crusaders shocked!

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AND…. ANOTHER CRUSADE (3RD)

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Third Crusades• Try to recapture Jerusalem again. This time

lead by three kings– England- Richard the Lion Hearted– France- Philip Augustus – German-Frederick I

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Third Crusades cont.• Richard and Saladin

fought each other many times– Both ruthless fighters– Respected each other– Agreed to a truce

• Saladin promised to allow unarmed Christian pilgrims into the city

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THE FOURTH CRUSADE!!!

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Fourth Crusades• Pope Innocent II appeals for

another crusade to recapture Jerusalem – Knights end up looting the

city of Constantinople– Causing the split in the

Eastern and Western churches

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EVEN MORE CRUSADE…..

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Later Crusaders• They were common and unsuccessful

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The Effects• Failures lessoned the power of the pope• Weakened nobility • Stimulated trade between Europe and

southwest Asia• Bitterness between Christians, Jews and

Muslims• Weakened the Byzantine Empire

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Fall of Constantinople• Crusaders weakened

the city • Eventually it fell to

the Ottoman Turks– Ended the Byzantine

Empire– Becomes the capital

of the ottoman empire

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Black Death • 1/3 of the

population died to the deadly disease known as the bubonic plague

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Origins• Began in Asia • Came to Europe through trade• Began in Italy before quickly

spreading to France, Germany and Europe– Took 4 years to reach all of

Europe – Killed 25 million in Europe

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Effects• Populations numbers fell in the towns and

country side• Trade declined– Prices rose

• Less people to work– Farmlands abandoned– Old manorial system crumbles– Serf left manors to find better wages – Church losses Prestige

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Church Scholars• Most who were able to read or write belonged

to the church • Scholars worked in monasteries where they

translated Greek and Arabic into Latin

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Bellringer• Pull out reading packet and finish reading

chapter 14 sec 3 &4

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Agenda• Finish book work• Review• Begin on study guide

• Homework: Study for test NEXT class

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Middle Ages Review • After the Roman Empire Split into two parts.

The Eastern became known as the ________

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• The Western half of the Roman empire was invaded/attacked by __________________ who came from central Asia

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• ______________ came to a halt because of the invasions. Merchants no longer felt safe traveling from one city to another

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• _____________ became smaller as people moved out to the country side for protection

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The following describes what system that developed during the Middle Ages

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The following describes what system that developed during the Middle Ages

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Other than the king who else held power? (more power than the kings?)

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• A ______________ was a person who is bond to the land. They work for the lord and in return the lord provides them with protection

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• Charles Martel defeated the __________ at the battle of the Tours, preventing Islam from spreading into Europe.

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• How did the monaries continue the Roman traditions?

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• What is a Crusade?

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• What was the goal of the crusades?

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•Who were crusaders?

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•Were the crusades successful?

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• What is a guild?

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• _________________ the conqueror invaded England in 1066

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• The 100 year war was between ____________ and _________________


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