WARM UP ACTIVITY NO TALKING DURING WARMUP Warm

WARM UP ACTIVITY (NO TALKING DURING WARMUP) Warm Up – When the bell rings: 1. Take assigned seat. 2. Get out a writing utensil and paper. 3. Answer the following questions in complete sentences on your paper: What gave Nobles their power in the Middle Ages? What system of government was used in the Middle Ages? Once you have answered these questions put your pen/pencil down, turn your paper over, and wait for further directions.

Middle Ages September 18 th, 2018 LEARNING TARGET: STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO OUTLINE THE BASICS OF THEMIDDLE AGES.

I. Feudalism A. Nobles ( Land Owners) 1. Lords 2. Vassals B. Peasants/ Serfs 1. Worked the land of Nobles 2. Paid rent to Nobles 3. Subject to Nobles Control a. Tried in Nobles’ Court b. Couldn’t marry without permission

II. Economics A. Revival of Trade 1. Work skills increased 2. Money economy a. No more bartering 3. Commercial capitalism a. Investment B. Industry and Guilds 1. Craftspeople organized themselves into guilds (unions) a. set quality of goods b. set prices of goods 2. Industry grew with an increase of skilled workers a. Apprentices

III. The Church Involved in politics A. Pope – Ruled Kings Money Defines Truth & Knowledge C. Heavenly things emphasized B. Indulgences Worldly things not important. D. No need for science The Inquisition E. People tried as heretics.

IV. Culture A. Universities B. Architecture C. Literature 1. grammar, logic, arithmetic, geometry, music, astronomy, law, medicine, theology 2. scholasticism – showed that was accepted on faith was in harmony with what could be learned 1. Gothic cathedrals a. steeples, stain glass windows b. Very little influence from Greeks and Romans 1. Vernacular (region lang. ) a. used rather than Latin

V. The Black Death A. Where did it originate? 1. 1348 -1350 – Moves through Europe. 2. Historians believe it started in China and traveled the silk road 3. Then spread through the Mediterranean and Europe

B. Symptoms 1. Appearance of buboes (sores) in groin, neck, and armpits A. Oozed and bled 2. Fever 3. Vomiting Blood 4. Died within 2 -7 days 5. Spots and rashes fleas 6. Respiratory problems

WHAT IMPACT DID IT HAVE ON THE POPULATION OF EUROPE? 30%-60% of Europe’s population died

THE TERROR OF THE BUBONIC PLAGUE The plague I have been describing was of so contagious a nature that very often it visibly did more than simply pass from one person to another. In other words, whenever an animal other than a human being touched anything belonging to a person who had been stricken or exterminated by the disease, it not only caught the sickness, but died from it almost at once. To all of this, as I have just said, my own eyes bore witness on more than one occasion. One day, for instance, the rages of a poor person who had died from the disease were thrown into the street, where they attracted the attention of two pigs. In their usual way, the pigs first of all gave the rages a thorough mauling with their snouts, after which they took them between their teeth and shook them against their cheeks. And within a short time they began to writhe as though they had been poisoned, then they both dropped dead to the ground, spread eagled upon the rags that had brought about their undoing. • Giovanni Boccaccio – The Decameron – Florence, Italy 1348

VI. Black Death Brings Changes A. Lords Lose Power 1. Pay for labor 2. Peasants bargained for pay & rent instead of in services a. Peasants freed from serfdom B. Decline in Church Power 1. Great Schism (split in Catholic Church, 2 popes) a. people didn’t respect the church b. caused decline in money and political power.

FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT Fleas on Rats 1. What is the Bubonic Plague and how did it affect Europe? (one paragraph) 2. What five things did we cover regarding the Middle Ages? (Bullet points are fine)

RENAISSANCE Renaissance – ‘rebirth’ of interest in art, literature, government, manners, and sciences

I. ITALY A. Birthplace of Renaissance 1. Thriving cities 2. Wealthy merchant class 3. Classical heritage of Greece and Rome