Download Ch. 6, The Early Middle Ages

Ch. 6, The Early
Middle Ages
Gr. 7
Main Idea
• Do you have a goal that you would devote your life to
reaching?
Connection
• Learn in 6-1, the goals of the Catholic Church in the early
Middle Ages.
Discussion Question
• How did the mountains affect people in Europe?
Answer
*The mountains separated people, so different cultures
developed independently. The mountains also made it difficult
for one person to rule all the the kingdoms in Europe.
Discussion Questions
• How did the pope obtain the Papal States?
Answer
*Pepin defeated the Lombards, who had threatened the pope,
who then ruled the lands as if he were king.
Question
• What duties did monks have?
Answer
• Monks educated people, provided food to travelers, helped
care for the sick, and taught farming, carpentry, and weaving.
They were also important in preserving knowledge. They
made copies of important works, such as the Bible and works
of Roman and Greek writers.
Section Review
• Questions 1, 3, 4, 5 on page 333 [10 minutes]
Q. 1
• Why Battle of Tours significant?
A. 1
*Charles Martel led the Franks against the Muslim army and
stopped the Muslim advance into Europe.
Q. 3
• Diagram to describe role of monks in medieval Europe.
Provided
schools
Spread
Christianity
Monks
hospitals
Rest stops
Q. 4
• How Charlemagne [Charles the Great] support education?
Answer
*He opened a palace school for children of officials. The scholar,
Alcuin, taught classes.
Question
• What ideas did monks help spread across Europe?
Answer
*Ideas about carpentry, weaving, better farming methods were
ideas that monks help spread across Europe.
Ch. 6, Section 2
• Vassal?
A. 1
• A noble who served a lord of higher rank
Q. 2
• Crop rotation? How increase amount of food?
A.2
• Peasants rotated crops among three fields, keep two-thirds
planted at all times.
Q. 3
Shift of power from kings to nobles during Middle Ages?
A. 4
• Europe had no central gov’t. Nobles began to collect taxes and
enforce laws.
• See birth of feudalism – transferring of power from kings to
nobles who then governed/protected people in exchange for
services [e.g., fighting in noble’s army or farming the land]
Q. 5
• Increase in trade lead to growth of cities/towns?
A. 5
• Trade brought more people and prosperity to cities/towns.
Q. 6
• Guilds? Why important?
A. 6
• Guilds were business groups organized by craftspeople;
• Determined quality of products, production, prices
Q. 7
• Barter system – shift to $ system change medieval Europe’s
economy?
A. 7
• Trade, banks and coinage made economy more efficient,
allowed