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Chapter 6
 Create
the timeline foldable by following the
teacher’s directions.
 Write one date for each box, then fill in a
significant event from that date.
 Draw a picture for each event.
AD 496
AD 800
AD 800s
AD 871
10961204
1209
1215
1233
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Look up these people, places, and vocabulary terms. Write
down the definition or why they are important.
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Clovis
Alps (pg. 326)
Gregory the Great (pg. 332)
Charles Martel
Peninsula
Gregory VII
Henry IV
Aachen
Scandinavia
Holy Roman Empire
Fjord
Missionary
Excommunicate
Concordat
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 The
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geography of Europe
provided:
Opportunities for trade
Ample fishing
Safety
 Rivers
made it easy to travel and trade.
 Mountain ranges separated parts
of Europe
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Alps: separated Italy from Europe
 Name
means Charles the Great
 King of a Germanic people called the Franks
 Charlemagne was intelligent and successful
 Charlemagne believed in education.
 He was successful because:
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He had a strong military
He had the support of the pope
He set up courts throughout his empire.
 The
Catholic church spread
Christianity throughout
Europe.
 Monks became teachers,
medics, and helped
travelers.
 Gregory the Great sent
missionaries throughout
Europe to convert people to
Catholicism.
 In
your notebook, answer questions 1,2, and
5 on page 333.
 Be sure to use complete sentences for your
answers.
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Look up these people, places, and vocabulary
terms. Write down the definition or why they are
important.
apprentice
 Flanders
 Feudalism
 Vassal
 Code of Chivalry (pg. 338)
 Fief
 Knight
 Serf
 Guild
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Feudalism is a shift in power
from Kings to nobles. It is a
political system based on bonds
of loyalty between lords and
vassals.
 Feudalism began with Charles
Martel, who gave estates to
nobles willing to fight for him.
 A vassal who showed loyalty
(served in the lord’s army) was
rewarded with a fief, or land.
 These vassals were knights, or
warriors in armor who fought
on horseback.
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Kings &
Queens
Lords and
Ladies
Knights
Peasants and Serfs
Code of chivalry: rules for knights- obey, bravery,
respect women, honor church, help people.
 Knights lived in castles.
 Peasants lived in simple houses and worked hard.
They were unfree laborers in fiefs. They grew
crops by rotating in 3 fields instead of 2.
 If a serf ran away and remained in a town for
more than a year they would gain
their freedom.
 Wives and daughters would run the
manor while the noblemen when to
to war.
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 Cities
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were:
Very crowded
Often run by a city council
Dirty, smelly, and polluted
 Increased
trade led to the
growth of towns and
cities.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGbPSh
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 Draw
the chart below and fill in to describe
the duties and obligations of lords, knights,
and serfs.
Lords
Knights
Serfs
 In
your notebook, answer questions 1,2, and
5 on page 343.
 Be sure to use complete sentences for your
answers.
 With
your partner, read pgs. 344-345.
 Decide which side you are on…do you think
feudalism was good or bad? Why?
 Be ready to discuss and debate with the
class.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCPp7X
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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_w4FG
gOVsM&index=6&list=PLE2179BA645EB4FC1
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVMvl05
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Look up these people, places, and vocabulary terms.
Write down the definition or why they are important.
 Normandy
 Moscow
 Edward I (pg. 349)
 Henry II (pg. 348)
 William the Conqueror
 King John
 Philip II
 Saladin
 Grand jury
 Clergy
 Czar
 William
the Conqueror was king of England
and became that by defeating others.
 The Magna Carta limited the king’s power.
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He could no longer collect taxes
Freemen had the right to fair trials
helped establish the idea that people have
rights and the power of government should
be limited.
 The Magna Carta went on to help America
establish its laws.
 Henry
II established a body of common law,
that was the same throughout the kingdom.
 Habeas Corpus protects a person from being
put in prison without a trial.
 A trial jury decides whether a person is
innocent or guilty.
 Parliament is a meeting of people from
different parts of England who advised the
king.
 French
kings conquered lands held by the
English and set up France’s first Parliament
(government)
 Clergy were people in France ordained as
priests.
 The rulers of Moscow (Russia) were
rebuilding after the Mongols destroyed their
land.
 The
Crusades were holy wars launched by the
Catholics against Muslim Turks.
 They were started by Pope Urban II in 1095.
 The First Crusade drove Muslims from
Jerusalem
 The Crusades affected Europe by:
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Increasing trade
Breaking down feudalism
Helping strong central governments emerge
 In
your notebook, answer questions 1,2,4,
and 6 on page 354.
 Be sure to use complete sentences for your
answers.
 Look
up these people, places, and vocabulary
terms. Write down the definition or why they
are important.
 Bologna
 Francis of Assisi
 Thomas Aquinas
 Mass
 Heresy
 Anti-semitism
 Theology
 Scholasticism
 Vernacular
 The
Catholic Church played an important
role in medieval Europe.
 Francis of Assisi founded the first order of
friars, or brothers. They taught Christianity
to the people, and helped the poor.
 On Sundays and holy days, people began
going to mass, or Catholic worship service.
 Most educated women were nuns and lived in
convents.
 Jews were persecuted because they refused
to become Christians, and many were
moneylenders.
 Church
and government
leaders supported
learning and the arts.
 Gothic cathedrals were
built by church leaders
and wealthy merchants
and nobles.
 Gothic cathedrals had
large stained glass
windows, which were
like picture bibles for
Christians who could
not read.
 Thomas
of Aquinas was a priest
who combined Church
teachings with the ideas of
Aristotle, a philosopher.
 Universities were created to
educate and train scholars.
 Latin was used in Church
worship and taught in schools.
 Vernacular, or everyday
language, was developed in
many regions and in literature.
 Draw
a Venn diagram like the one below. Use
it to describe the differences between the
groups of people.
Cistercians
Franciscans
Dominicans
 In
your notebook, answer questions 1,2,4, 5
and 6 on page 363.
 Be sure to use complete sentences for your
answers.
 Look
up these people, places, and vocabulary
terms. Write down the definition or why they
are important.
 Joan of Arc
 Isabella of Castile
 Ferdinand of Aragon
 Crecy
 Orleans
 Plague
 Reconquista
A terrible plague that swept through Europe in
the 1300s, killing millions.
 Scientists think it was Bubonic Plague, a disease
carried by fleas. The fleas infested black rats,
and rats were everywhere.
 Many villages were empty after the Black Death,
because everyone who lived there had died.
 The Black Death came from Asia, and spread
quickly since population had grown and there
was much trade with Asia.
 Some historians think it came from the Mongol
Empire on trade routes.
 Due to the Black Death, wages (pay) rose, and
trade declined (was less).
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 About
19-38 million people died in Europe,
nearly one in every two people (50%).
 The black death weakened the feudal system
in Europe.
The Hundred Years’ War started when English King
Edward III declared himself king of France.
 The Hundred Years’ War devastated Western Europe.
 England and France fought against each other and
Spain and Portugal fought against the Muslims.
 Joan of Arc was a young French peasant who lead
soldiers in the Hundred Years’ War.
 The First Battle of the war was Crecy.
 French regions held by England in 1429:
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Brittany
 Normandy
 Flanders
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 During
the Middle Ages, Muslims ruled the
Iberian Peninsula, but most of the people
were Christians.
 The Reconquista was the struggle to take
back the Iberian Peninsula from Muslim rule.
 Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain persecuted
both Jews and Muslims.
The
Black
Death
1.
2.
3.
What was the samurai code of conduct
called?
Both samurai and knights were part of a
feudal system. On what was this system
based?
Compare the training of knights and the
training of samurai.
Copy these questions into your notebook and
answer as we watch the video.
 In
your notebook, answer questions 1,2, and
4 on page 369.
 Be sure to use complete sentences for your
answers.
 Watch
the following clip and you decide:
Does it have anything to do with the Black
Plague?
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lrhbY6l
sgs&index=6&list=PLRlpXTvpW9NIDeuc6mNS9
ywHn3jOkGBD2
 Here’s
a video about the Black Plague set to
a song. What do you think?
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv0Kuuf
UpOM
 In
this activity, you get to be the architect!
You will be planning and designing your
future castle, and you will sketch it out on
paper.
 Here’s a website with castles throughout the
world:
 http://www.everycastle.com/
 For
your castle, you will need the following:
 A detailed drawing of the exterior of the
castle.
 A list of features you would like in your
castle (remember, it’s the medieval times!)
 You can draw the interior (or some of the
interior features) too for extra credit.
 You must give your castle a name and a
location in Europe.
 Your drawing AND writing must be neat.