the middle ages

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Christianity and Medieval society

• By- Breanna Asberry

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Magna Carta Changes in England
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Magna Carta

• Magna Carta is a document written by English
  nobles and signed by King John listing rights the
  king should not ignore.
• English nobles demanded King John to approve of
  the document.

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Effects of Magna Carta
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What were the effects of Magna Carta?

• Three demands, and why they are important are..
• 1.) habeas corpus (no one could be kept in jail
  without reason.) This is important because they
  believed it was not right for whomever to go to
  jail for no reason at all.
• 2.) no man shall be forced to perform more
  service for a knights fee, or other free
  holding of land, than is due from it. (16) this
  is important because they didnt want to be
  forced to do more than they had to.
• 3.)

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The church shapes politics and society

• A. Clergys are church officals. The clergy were
  very influential in medieval European culture
  politics.
• B. Everything took place at church, church was
  the center of all society. People traveled to see
  religious things.
• C. Church officials often became advisors to
  local rulers.

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Monks and Friars
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The Monks of Cluny

• Monks established a new religious order, they had
  dedicated their lives to religion with common
  rules. Women created their own religious
  communities.
• Monks lived away from people.

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New Orders
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Friars

• A. Francis of Assisi created Dominicans.
• B. Friars were the ones who followed the orders
  to live among and teach among the public.
• C. Living within the society meant teaching at
  schools etc

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Universities are built

• Europes first universities were created by the
  church.
• A reasoned argument was written about the
  existence of god by Thomas Aquinas, a Dominican
  Friar.
• He developed natural law, a philosophical
  system, to show how god ordered the world as well.

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The church and the arts

• Great Gothic cathedrals of medieval Europe are
  upon the most beautiful of all architecture
  achievement.

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Religious architecture
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Black Death
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Where it came from

• Black death came from rats with fleas in central
  and eastern Asia.

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How it spread

• It spreaded by the fleas jumping on to humans and
  biting them.

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What disease was it

• The disease was bubonic plague.

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Effect on Manor life and feudalism how/ many died

• In most places the Manor system fell completely
  apart, and feudalism decreased as well because
  there was not enough people, Europe lost about a
  third of its population, about 25 million people
  died.

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What happened to it

• What happened to Black Death was the people who
  survived What realized what was causing all the
  deaths (fleas on rats) so they decided what they
  would do is clean up the city because rats liked
  dirty/unclean places. And after that, since
  there were little people, there was enough
  money/food for everyone. And the Black Death
  decreased, springing back a couple times.

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The Hundred Years War

• In 1328 the king of France died without any sons,
  so two men claimed his throne. One was French and
  the other was the king of england, but the French
  man became king. But the English king was not
  happy with this and as that said, he invaded
  France a few years later. The invasion was a long
  conflict between England and France and became
  the Hundred Years War
• In the beginning the English armies won most of
  the battles.
• After 100 years of war, a teenage peasant girl,
  Joan of Arc, joined/supported the French troops.
  But was soon later captured by the English and
  killed.

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Results of the War
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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 war. King soon lost power to
  Parliaments.

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Changes in France

• The king gained more power from nobles