Warm up• Copy HW

• Please grab a Green Textbook

• Please take the three handouts from the front desks and make them pages 2,3 and 4 of your New Middle Ages Notebook

• Please complete the “Loyalty” activity on your new page #2: 6 minutes

What is Loyalty?

A feeling of strong support for someone or something

Faithfulness to commitments or obligations

Essential Questions

• What happens when societies are confronted with change?

• How do societies stabilize in the face of adversity?

•Please turn to page 17 in your Green textbook

The Middle Ages

Time in European history between classical

antiquity and the Italian Renaissance

Why is this time period called The Middle Ages?

Success of Western Civilization

Greeks/Romans ~ Year “0”

Present/Future

Early Neolithic Revolution ~5000 B.C.E. Renaissance ~1500 B. C. E.Fall of Rome 476 C.E.

10,000 BCE end of last Ice Age

DARK/MIDDLE AGES ~1000 C.E.

The Middle Ages

Early 476-1000 C. E.

High 1000-1300 C. E.

Late 1300-1450 C.E.

Political Geography of Europe

Roman Empire: Pax Romana Kingdoms of the Middle Ages

What was life like after the fall of Rome?

• Dangerous

• People had to work hard just to survive

Invasions

• Vikings: North

• Muslims: North Africa and the Middle East

• Magyars: Central Asia

What was the solution????

Feudalism

Feudalism

• A social structure during the Middle Ages that held society together

• Political and economic system based on bonds (Loyalty) btw. Lords and vassals

Feudalism

Who gets what?

What’s my role?

School Feudalism

•Please turn to page 20 in your text book

FiefsLand granted by a lord to a vassal in exchange for loyalty and service

Manors

Large estates; including a castle, or manor house, a village and surrounded by farmland

Monarchs: page 21

• Kings and Queens• Got their power from: God, their family , or

military conquest• Relied on the vassals to provide knights and

soldiers

William The Conqueror

• Invaded England

• Brought Feudalism to England in» 1066 C.E.

Lords and Ladies: pages 22/23

• Lords- managed landdefended landacted as judges

• Ladies- helped run estatesacted as judgesraised children

Knights: pages 24 and 25

• Soldiers on horseback

• Most were wealthy

• Knights were expected to be loyal to the Church and their lord, be just and fair, and protect the helpless

Peasants and Serfs: pages 26 and 27

• Worked the land• Grind the grain at the mill• Some were craftsman• Fought in wars• Free or not free???

• Homes were…• Smokey• Crowed• Dark

Social Mobility

• People were born into a social class for life

• They had the same social position, and often the same job as their parents.

• How does this compare to America today?

Closure• Please write down the answers to the following

questions and be prepared to share your answers with the class…

1. Why is the Middle Ages called the Middle Ages?

2. What is feudalism; and why was it needed?

3. Explain the role of the monarch, lord and peasant in the Middle Ages?

Middle Ages

A period of chaos and confusion from 476 C.E. until 1450 C.E.

This time period bridged the gap between the fall of Rome and the Renaissance

Feudalism

• A social structure that used loyalty to establish order and security after the fall of the Roman Empire

Everyone had a role to play!Monarchs Lords Peasants

Gave lords land and workers in return for their loyalty/protec-tion in times of war

Gave the peasants protection, shelter and food in return for hard work, rent and service in times of war

They worked the land, paid rent, and fought in wars in return for their “protection” and place to call “home”