Later Middle Ages

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Christianity and medieval society
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The church shapes Society and politics

• Clergy-They were very influential in medieval
  European culture and politics.
• Society-For many people in the middle ages, life
  revolved around the local church.
• Politics-The church owned a lot of land in Europe
  because many people left their property to the
  church when they died.

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Monks and friars

• The monks of Cluny
• Religious order-The monks of Cluny, France,
  established a new religious order. They dedicated
  their lives to religion.
• Living apart from society-Most monks lived apart
  from society, but two new religious orders
  developed for those who wanted to live to teach
  among people.

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• New orders
• Friars
• Francis of Assisi-These were the Dominicans,
  started by Francis of Assisi.
• Friars-The members of these orders were called
  friars.
• Living within society-They dedicated their lives
  to religion with common rules. Other new orders
  followed.

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Universities are built

• Thomas Aquinas wrote a reasoned argument for the
  existence of god. He also created natural law.
  Europe first universities were built by the
  church , religion, law, medicine, and philosophy
  were taught. Scholars wanted to establish a
  connection between religious faith and
  intellectual reason.

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The church and the arts

• The great gothic cathedrals of late medieval
  Europe are among the most beautiful of all
  architectural achievements. Everything inside the
  church, from the walls to the clergy robes to the
  books used, were also works of art.

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Summary

• In the medieval ages the church was a hug part in
  society the church were part of their daily lives
  anything you did the church had to do with it.

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Magna Carta causes changes in England
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Magna Carta

• In 1215 a group of English nobles decided to
  force the king to respect their rights. They made
  king john approve a document listing rights the
  king could not ignore. This document was called
  the magna Carta, or great charter. Among these
  rights was that no one could be kept in jail
  without reason, and even the king must obey the
  law.

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Effects of Magna Carta

• The magna Carta led to more changes. Faced with
  war an financial troubles, the kings turned to a
  council of noble for advice and money. Before
  parliament, the lawmaking body that still governs
  England today.

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Three demands and why they were important

• One demand they had was people demand to be free
  of royal control.
• They wanted to limit the king power over the
  people.
• They wanted the king to ensure that every one
  would be treated fairly.
• These demands were important because these
  demands kept anyone from having to much power.

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Changes after the Magna Carta

• In time the council developed into parliament a
  law making body that governs England today.

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Magana Carta inspires the nobles

• Magna Carta inspired the English to find more
  ways to limit the kings power. A council of
  nobles was created to advise the king.

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Parliament

• The king limed the Magna Carta in this way, over
  the years, membership in parliament was opened to
  knights and town leaders. By the late middle
  ages, kings could do little without parliaments
  support.

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100 years war

• Although Magna Carta changed England's
  government, it had no effect out side of that
  country. Kings in other parts of Europe continued
  to rule as they always had. Eventually ,however,
  these kings also had to ace great political
  changes.

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The course of the war

• One of the countries in which political change
  occurred was France.

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French dies with no heirs/Two men claim the
throne

• In 1328 the king of France died with no sons, and
  two men claimed his throne. One was French. The
  other was the king of England. In the end, the
  French man became king.

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English take the land

• This did not sit well with the English king, and
  a few years later he invaded France. This
  invasion began a long conflict between England
  and France that came to be called the hundred
  years war.

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Joan of Arc

• At first the English armies did well, winning
  most of the battles. After nearly 100 years of
  fighting, however, a teenage peasant girl, Joan
  of Arc, rallied the French troops.

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Results of the war

• The hundred years war changed the governments of
  both England and France.

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Changes in England

• In England parliaments power grew because the
  king needed parliaments approval to raise money
  to pay for the costly war. As parliament gained
  more influence, the king lost power.

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Changes in France

• In France, on the other hand, the kings power
  grew. During the war the king had become popular
  with his nobles. Fighting the English had created
  a bong between them. As a result, the nobles
  supported the king after the war as well.

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Democracy in France will have to wait

• It will have to wait because the king grew more
  power so it cant be a democracy.

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• Black death

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Where it came from

• The black death a plague that originally came
  from central and eastern Asia.

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How it spread

• It spread by unknowingly, traders brought rats
  carrying the to Mediterranean ports in 1347.

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What disease was it

• The black death was not caused by one disease but
  by several different forms of plague.

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Effect on manor life and feudalism/how many died?

• The plague killed millions of people in Europe
  and millions around the world. Some historians
  think Europe lost about a third of its
  population-perhaps 25 million people. This is a
  huge drop in population caused sweeping changes
  in Europe.

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What happened to it

• The black death still insists today there in no
  cure for the black death it is incurable.