Middle+Ages

Power Point #1


 * 1) Rome's fall was caused by disease and being besieged by various tribes of Germany and France.
 * 2) Two examples of Rule of law are that nobody was above the law, and that laws were written and had to be respected.
 * 3) Manoralism - People would form small communities around a central lord for protection.
 * 4) Lords would give some of their land to knights in return for protection.
 * 5) William, the Duke of Normandy, attacked England in 1066.
 * 6) The crusades where whn thousands of soldiers would go and fight the Muslims to try and bring Christianity back to Jerusalem, the Holy City.
 * 7) Rome in Greece thrived during the classic era.
 * 8) The Magna Carta was signed in 1215.
 * 9) The church was the most powerfuland respected organization in the Middle Ages.

Power Point #2


 * 1) Emperors had given barbarians warriors land within Rome in return that the barbarians fought in the Roman army.
 * 2) The Church was given leisures from emperors and kings, and in return, the Church would help them stay in power.
 * 3) Monasticism were Monks who gave up what they had to devote themselves to the church.
 * 4) Feudalism - Kings, tenants-in-chief, knights / lords, then peasants.
 * 5) The Bubonic Plague also known as both Black Death or the Black Plague was a disease where people would get these red rings, as well as a black bubbles all over the skin. It was also a huge killer.
 * 6) The Parlimentary Government that was developed in England is one of the most important inventions in history. If not for it, North America would not have a democratic government today.

Power Point #3


 * 1) Feudalism was a system that controlled all medieval.
 * 2) Manoralsim was a excahnge basically between serfs (peasants hired) and lords. Serfs would do many things for their lord in return for a peice of land and protection.
 * 3) The role of the church was to of course teach people, but the church also had economic and political power.
 * 4) Some reasons for the crusades were toincrease the Pope's power, and also to free the Holy Land. The crusades increased trade.
 * 5) The trade fairs were the beggining of the end of feudalism because serfs became capable of paying things with cash instead of service.
 * 6) The Renaissance was the golden age of arts, literature, and sciences. It started in Italy because of teh urban centers and wealthy merchants.
 * 7) The new outlook of the Renaissance was to focus on the present instead of just life after death.
 * 8) Shakespeare writing his plays as well as Dante writing Divine Comedy.
 * 9) Thanks to teh printin press more people became literate.
 * 10) The Reformation was the church trying get their power back.
 * 11) Protestantism were the people who believe what Martin Luther said about 95 Theses.
 * 12) The Counter Reformation was to keep Catholics from converting into Protestantism.

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