The Middle Ages

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The Middle Ages

• 500 -1500
• Western and northern Europe
• Medieval- Latin medius
• Key word
• Urbanization for the first time
• Early Middle Ages, the High Middle Ages, and the
  Late Middle Ages

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Questions about the Middle Ages

• What was life like in the Middle Ages?
• Where did the Middle Ages take place? Was it only
  in Europe?
• Why was the church important?
• When did children go to school?
• Who were some of the famous people of the Middle
  Ages? Why were they important?
• How did the Black Plague kill so many people?

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Map of Europe in 998. http//en.wikipedia.org/wi
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FEUDALISM
Lord Furnival
1) A political, economic, and social system based
on loyalty and military service. 2) In other
words, the king awarded land grants or "fiefs" to
his most important nobles, his barons, and his
bishops, in return for their contribution of
soldiers for the king's armies.
Crispin
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• Crispin Heres a map of what Stromford may have
  looked like.
• Go ahead and color in the legend on your handout.

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• Serfs
• Bound to lord for life.
• Needed permission to marry
• Under protection of lord
• Not allowed to leave land

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Castles
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• could only be built by the approval of the king
• Used for defense
• Everything the king or nobles needed would be
  found inside the house

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Concentric Castles- Why were they called
concentric castles?
Deal Castle
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The Church
Above More like the church at Stromford Left
Perhaps like a church in Great Wexly Why would
Crispin be so surprised?
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Knighthood professional soliders
KNIGHT 20 yrs SQUIRE 15 or 16 yrs PAGE
8 yrs
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Code of Chivalry

• Thou shalt believe all that the Church teaches,
  and shalt observe all its directions.
• Thou shalt defend the Church.
• Thou shalt repect all weaknesses, and shalt
  constitute thyself the defender of them.
• Thou shalt love the country in the which thou
  wast born.
• Thou shalt not recoil before thine enemy.
• Thou shalt make war against the Infidel without
  cessation, and without mercy.
• Thou shalt perform scrupulously thy feudal
  duties, if they be not contrary to the laws of
  God.
• Thou shalt never lie, and shall remain faithful
  to thy pledged word.
• Thou shalt be generous, and give largess to
  everyone.
• Thou shalt be everywhere and always the champion
  of the Right and the Good against Injustice and
  Evil.

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Questions about the Middle Ages

• What was life like in the Middle Ages?
• Where did the Middle Ages take place? Was it only
  in Europe?
• Why was the church important?
• When did children go to school?
• Who were some of the famous people of the Middle
  Ages? Why were they important?
• How did the Black Plague kill so many people?

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