Warm -up

• Copy HW

• Please examine page 40 and read page 41 in your Green Textbook

• Start today’s notes by make a list of descriptive words and phrases about a medieval town: This will be page 8

Essential Questions

• What happens when societies are faced with adversity?

• How do societies stabilize in the face of adversity?

Describe the Town

• Wall• Dirty• Built around a castles• Illiterate, so colorful signs• Church/monastery• Unpaved streets• Crowded• industrious

Jigsaw Activity

• Please work with your group to research information about towns in the Middle Ages and then present that research to the class.

• 5 minutes read your section silently and take notes

• 5 minutes compare notes as a groups and decide who will present which information

Growth

• Surplus of crops or market

• Specialization

• Trading became more popular again

• Controlled by Lord or church at first

• Eventually town residents became more independent by purchasing royal charters

Trade and Commerce

• Sold and traded luxury goods at first• By the high Middle Ages-food, clothes and

household items• Markets and merchant fairs• Merchant guilds become powerful!!!!!• Since Jews were discriminated against they

became money lenders (bankers) which was often forbidden by the Christian church

Homes and Households

Poor-small/crowded/wood/leaned

Wealthy merchants-large homes but, cold/dim/smoky

½ of kids died before adulthoodSome boys learned to read and write many became apprenticesMany girls married by 15 and started a family

People believed in order and everyone knew their “place”

Disease and Medical Treatment

• Dirty=Diseases (measles, cholera, leprosy)• No running water• Trash in the streets• Rats and fleas• Few hospitals and doctors

• Doctors used a combination and prayer and medicine

• “Bleeding” was popular

Crime and Punishment

• Unsafe….Dark at night• Dirty jails • Trial by ordeal (thrown into a well)• Trial by combat

• Punishment- fines, put in the stocks, killed

• More fair courts and judges developed btw. 1100-1300 C.E.

Leisure and Entertainment

• Chess, checker, cards, dancing…• Parades with music• Biblical/Miracle plays

Please Create a T-chart comparing towns then and now

Europe: The Middle Ages America: 2014