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Middle Ages Review. What were the defining aspects of the Middle Ages?. Essential Question. What were the defining aspects of the Middle Ages?. What do you know about the Middle Ages?. Review of the Middle Ages. Time period: 5 th century – 15 th century - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Middle Ages Review
What were the defining aspects of the Middle Ages?
What were the defining
aspects of the Middle Ages?
Essential Question
What do you know about the Middle
Ages?
Time period: 5th
century – 15th century
Renaissance will begin in the 14th century and last until the 17th century
Review of the Middle Ages
Countries are being
consolidated and cities grow Most areas are controlled by
Monarchies (England, France) or powerful families (Italy)
Church has political power
Political
Most people worked on a
manor for a lord and harvested the crops
Peasants were taxed heavily Most people farm; however,
trade is growing
Economic
Catholic Church is all powerful and only church in Europe
Often helped control the government/laws
Crusades – Christians vs. Muslims vs. Jews (11th-13th century) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh-JGjIZ
YpI
Religious
Feudalism – society is divided based on land/wealth Lords, Knights, Peasants Women have no power
Entertainment – revolved around the Church (singing, dinners, etc…)
Social
MEDIEVAL LIFECooperation and
Mutual Obligations
KING
LORDS (VASSALS TO KING)
KNIGHTS (VASSALS TO LORDS)
Fief and Peasants
Military Aid
Food Protection Shelter
Food Protection Shelter
PEASANTS (SERFS)Pay Rent
Fief and Peasants
Food Protection Shelter
Farm the Land
Homage Military Service
Loyalty
FEUDALISM: POLITICAL SYSTEM
Decentralized, local government
Dependent upon the relationship between members of the nobility
Lord and his vassals administered justice and were the highest authority in their land
MANORIALISM: ECONOMIC SYSTEM
Agriculture the basis for wealth
Lands divided up into self-sufficient manors
Peasants (serfs) worked the land and paid rent In exchange for protection
Barter the usual form of exchange
Arts – again, revolved
around the Church/Bible Education – nobility and
clerics tended to be educated. Majority of people were not
Intellectual
Medicine was often a
risky business. Bloodletting was a popular method of restoring a patient's health.
Early surgery was without anesthesia.
Bloodletting
Medical treatment was
available mainly to the wealthy, and those living in villages rarely had the help of doctors, who practiced mostly in the cities and courts. Remedies were often herbal in nature, but also included ground earthworms, urine, and animal excrement.
Medical Treatment
Resources – used trade to
get goods from Asia A little at a time = expensive
Shipping from the Mediterranean
Area/Geography