Middle+Ages

__**Time Machine**__ __**Renaissance Powerpoint Questions**__ 1. Feudalism was a social, political, and economic system that dominated all aspects of midevial life. 2. The economic portion of feudalism was centered around the lord's estates or manor. 3. Held a spiritual point of view for the people by participating in baptisms and weddings. The church also held a secular point of view for the people by being the largest landholder, gained wealth through tithing and had its own laws and courts. As well as the fact that some parish preists ran schools. 4. Reasons: The Pope wanted to increase his power. Christians believed it was their duty to recover the Holy Land. Nobles wanted to gain wealth. Adventurers sought travel and excitement. Serfs hoped to escape feudal opression. Impacts: Cultural Diffusion and an increase in trade. 5. It altered the was people lived in Europe, and marked the beginning of the end of feudalism. It was the start of an economy based on money. 6. The Renaissance was a golden age in the arts, literature, and sciences. It was based in Italy becasue of the urban centers, larger city-states in Northeren Italy, the cities were breeding grounds for intellectual revolution and had thriving centers of trade and manufacturing. The merchants were the wealthiest, most powerful class and dominated the politics. They had money to persure other interests such as arts and education. 7. The enjoyment of worldly pleasures. For example, Middle Ages had piety, Humanists could enjoy life without insulting God, people were still devoted catholics concerns were secular. 8. Michelangelo, Shakespere 9. By 1300 papermaking and printing technology had reached to Europe from China. The invention of the movable type lead Gutenberg to print the Bible in 1456. Books became more available. Literacy increased, and ideas started to spread rapidly. 10. The weakening of the church. 11. Promoted the radical idea that faith in God alone, not the pope who granted pardons for sin. 12. A reform movement that took place in the Catholic Church. The purpose of this was to strengthen the Catholic Church and to keep all catholics from converting to Protestian.
 * Part Three: Active History Games**
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__**Fall of Rome Powerpoint Questions**__ 1. Black Plauge, Invasion from the Barbarians 2. Nobody is above the law, not the king, not the people, not the senate, not the police 3. Manoralism 4. Knights let serfs work the land and in return the knight would protect them 5. 1066 6. A series of battles between the christians and the muslims in the middle east 7. Classical Era 8. 1215 9. The popes and nuns converted and took care of people, monks were the spiritual leaders, transcribed the bible, popes of the church had the most respect.

__**Middle Ages Powerpoint Questions**__ Dark Ages - (500 CE - 1000 CE) Scholars named this a time where the Forces of Darkness (Barbarians) overwhelmed the Forces of Light (Romans). Barbarian - Considered the Forces of Darkness to the Romans, overwhelmed the Romans during the Dark Ages. Heresy - Holding beliefs that contradict with the official religion. Monks - People who gave up worldly possesions and devote themselves to a religious life. Justinian Code - "Body of Civil Law" that defined civil law in the middle ages and the modern world. Salic Law - Assigned a specific financial value to everyone and everything. Primogeniture - System where the oldest son inherited everything. Feif - Land given by a lord in return for a vassal's military service and oath of loayalty. Thithe - A tax that the Serfs paid. Serf - Slaves made up of conquered people who were treated harshly and provided labour for their owners in order for protection in return. Corvee - Condition of unpaid labour by Serfs. St. Augustine - Wrote "confessions" which discussed the ideas of ethics, self-knowledge, and the roll of free will which shaped monastic tradition and the infuence of the church. Justinian the Great - Byzantine Emperor whos goal was to reunite the Roman world as a Christian Empire and suppressed all paganism. He ordered the Condification of Roman laws in the Justinian Code. He also crushed the Nika Riot with the help of his wife Theodora. During his reign Latin was the official language of the Byzantine Empire, but was later changed to Greek. Clovis I - United Frankish Tribes and expanded territory. Charlemagne - A military general and restored Pope Leo III who had been exiled. Named the "Emperor of the Romans" by Pope Leo III which secured the relationship between Frankish Kings and the papacy. First ruler of the Holy Roman Empire. He also imposed order on empire through the church and state. William the Conqueror - First Norman King of England. 1. Considered the Forces of Darkness to the Romans, overwhelmed the Romans during the Dark Ages. 2. The church had the most power durin the middle ages. The churchs word was higher than the Kings word. 3. Established between 400 - 700 communities called monastaries which became the centres of education, literacy and learning. 4. Relationship between those ranked in a chain of association. 5. Called the "Black Death" because of striking symptoms of the disease, in which the sufferers skin would blacken due to hemorrhages under the skin. It was spread by fleas and rats. There were painful lymph node swellings called buboes. Buboes formed in the groin and armpits, which oozed pus and blood. Damage to the skin and underlying tissue intil they were covered in dark blotches. Most victims dided within four to seven days after infection. The effects of the Bubonic Plague we massive depopulation and change in social structure. It also weakened the influence of the Church. The plague originated in Asian but was blamed on Jews and Lepers. 6. Printing Press, it saved time and effort and made publishing books, that spread ideas, much easier.