The Middle Ages

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The Middle Ages

• 1066-1485

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The Dark Ages

• Why were the Middle Ages called this?

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The Normans

• Originally Viking raiders
• Settle in Normandy, France
• William spreads French ways to England

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Feudalism

• One of Williams greatest feats
• A political and economic system in which the
  hierarchy of power was based on the premise that
  the king owned all the land in the kingdom.

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God King Barons Vassals of Barons Landless Kn
ights
Serfs
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Womens Rights

• Depended on her husband or father

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Domesday book

• First time items for recorded so that they could
  be taxed

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Barons Struggle for control

• Future kings less powerful
• Henry I weak king
• Henry II better than his father

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The Crusades

• What were they?
• Military expeditions in Europe where Eurpopean
  Christians attempted to take over the holy city
  of Jerusalem from Moslem control.
  
• Leads to monetary system

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Richard I

• Richard the Lion-hearted
• Spent much of his 10 year rule fighting in France

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Magna Carta

• King John forced to sign in 1215
• Limited royal authority

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Model Parliament of 1295

• Created the House of Commons and the House of
  Barons

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Decline of Feudalism

• Power of commoners grows
• Formation of cities and towns
• Guilds control the price of goods

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The Bubonic Plague

• Caused by two factors
• 1. Overcrowding
• 2. Infected fleas on rats

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Centers for Learning

• The Universities
• Churches were becoming corrupt
• John Wycliffe
• Martin Luther

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Protestant Reformer

• Protest
• Reformer

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The Hundred Years War

• Lasted 116 years
• Between England and France
• England loses the war
• Joan of Arc

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War of the Roses

• House of York/White
• House of Lancaster/Red

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Notable Events

• Beowulf is composed C. 750
• Handwritten by the monks

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Beowulf Manuscript
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The Exeter Book

• Only collected edition of Anglo-Saxon verse

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Important works

• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• Chaucers Canterbury Tales
• Sir Thomas Mallorys Le Morte D Arthur

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Thomas a Becket

• Murdered
• Sets off a rebellion in England
• Shrine visited

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Romances

• Tales of chivalric knights are portrayed
• Code of Chivalry

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Armor and mail shirts

• Mail Shirts-made up of a series of rivets.
  Covered the head and trunk
  
• Armor-Heavy and cumbersome

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Worldwide 449-1485

• A.D.500 Mathematician calculates the value of pi
• A.D. 630 prophet Muhammad conquers Mecca becomes
  holiest city of Islam
  
• C.800 Chinese invent gunpowder
• 1095 Crusades begin

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More worldwide

• C. 1300 Italian Renaissance begins
• 1347 Bubonic Plague reaches Europe millions die
• 1431 Joan of Arc burned at the stake
• 1455 the Guttenburg Bible is produced on the
  printing press.