The Black Death

How would the world's most deadly pandemic lead to an improved lifestyle? Read this link and this link to get a better understanding of how the Renaissance came to be.

1. From your reading, why would the term Black Death be used for the Bubonic Plague?
2. Describe how years of good crops and population growth followed by two years of dismal crops would be a good condition for the plague to attack.
3. How did increased trade lead to the spread of the plague?
4. IMPORTANT-What happened to the worth of the Serfs after the plague decimated much of the population in the country side.
5. How was urine and manure used in efforts to stop the plague
6. How did the above method actually probably help with the spread of the plague?
7. Why would people confess to causing the plague by poisoning wells and what punishment did the Christian majority bestow upon many of the Jewish faith?
8. Give a name that the plague was called during the Middle Ages.
9. How were those that died used as weapons by the Tartars?
10.What percentage died from the Black Death and why would that number be hard to verify?
11.Why did people think changing clothes would make you more likely to get the plague?
12.The plague had 3 forms, depending on how it is caught (explained here). Two of the forms are treatable today. One form still isn't treatable and has about a 100% death rate. Which form is so deadly?
13.Being as precise as you can, state what creature spread the plague
14.As the Middle Ages ended, what field of expertise did the Portuguese excel in that made them a major power and contributor to what will become knowns as the Age of Discovery.
15.How did Gutenberg contribute to birth of the Renaissance?
16 Is the Golden Mean the same as the Golden Rule? Explain.

The growth of towns

On our blog with the fabulous new look, click on this link and read the article. Answer the following questions
1.Who owned the land?
2.What was the basis of wealth in the early Middle Ages?
3.How would the growth of merchants change this basis of wealth?
4.Explain the logic about how a serf could gain his/her freedom
5.What institutions today are like the guilds of the Middle Ages?
6.Do towns and cities today have a charter?
7.What connection can you draw between our market hours and the market hours in the Middle Ages?

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Thursday, May 23

If done your shield, go to this link here and answer the questions on Knights. After your review of Knights, we will be talking about trade, which leads to the Renaissance. So do the questions on Trade, also found at the same link.

Your Shield

Why would people have a Coat of Arms? Think about the purpose of stain glass windows.

You are going to make your own Coat of Arms.
For your coat of arms, you must make it about you. Remember your knighted name. Pick a template from the pick up box. Put things on it that represent the best about you. Most coats of arms have Latin on them, so you can put Latin on it if you like. Here is a link to translate English into Latin. Here is a list of some famous latin mottos that you may wish to adapt.

Religion and life in the Middle Ages

With information already provided in class, and this link, answer the following questions.

1. Where did The Church store the tithes they were paid?
2. What was a cruck house and did it really have poop on the walls?
3. List 4 ways The Church made money
4. Serfs paid taxes to the King and a Tithe. The Kings paid a Tithe. Who did The Church pay a tax or Tithe to?
5. Who belonged to a guild?

Our Gothic Cathedrals

Pointed arches, steeple, flying buttresses, a large door, and oversized gargoyles

Cathedrals

With help from what was shown in class, and these links, link 1, link 2, link 3, answer the following questions. 1.What was the purpose for building such an elaborate structure? 2.What use did gargoyles have? 3.Why were flying buttresses needed? 4.Besides allowing light, what other purpose did stain glass windows serve? 5.List five other interesting facts you found about the Cathedrals. 6.What techniques were used to give the impression of height and light? 7.Why did they want to give the impression of height and light? 8.Compare your answer in number 7 to the beliefs of the ancient Egyptians,Greeks and Romans.

Go out on your shield

Don Cherry said last night that his teams almost always win in overtime. The advice he gives them is to "Go out on your shield." Hopefully his players were paying attention in history class and hopefully you were too. How is Don Cherry telling his players to play?

Religion

From what we talked about and saw in class, and from this reading here and here and here and here and here answer the following questions, which I will post after you have done some reading.

1. What is a Tithe?

2. What is a pilgrimage?

3. At the start of the Middle Ages, how many versions of Christianity were there?

4. How did the Christian church treat other religions? Give an example for your answer

5. How did The Church in the Middle Ages treat christians who tried a new way to worship God? Give an example for your answer

6. What is the difference between a cathedral and a church?

7. Give two uses for the huge stain glass windows

8. Explain how hope would draw people to the church in the Middle Ages

9. Explain how fear would draw people to the church in the Middle Ages

10. During the Middle Ages, which religion was known for its scientists?

11. Though not always followed, the law in much of the Middle ages forbid or discouraged Christians from lending money for a profit. Which religion allowed its members to provide the service of lending money for a profit (usury)?

12. Name some essential services that the church took upon themselves in the Middle Ages, services that they still do to this day.

Castles

Remember our class discussions and do some reading here about castle defense. Explore the site and become one of our Castle experts.

Then:

Use your google account to log onto flickr. Then go the the pictures of Castles that exists on the class flickr account http://www.flickr.com/photos/78589856@N03/ Find at least 5 comments to make on the various pictures

This coming Friday

Blog below what you will be coming as this Friday and your plans to get(make) your costume. Also blog what item(s) you will be bringing to share and go into some detail about those items.