Ch. 6, The Early Middle AgesGr. 7

Main Idea• Do you have a goal that you would devote your life to

reaching?

Connection• Learn in 6-1, the goals of the Catholic Church in the early

Middle Ages.

Discussion Question• How did the mountains affect people in Europe?

Answer

*The mountains separated people, so different cultures developed independently. The mountains also made it difficult for one person to rule all the the kingdoms in Europe.

Discussion Questions• How did the pope obtain the Papal States?

Answer

*Pepin defeated the Lombards, who had threatened the pope, who then ruled the lands as if he were king.

Question• What duties did monks have?

Answer• Monks educated people, provided food to travelers, helped

care for the sick, and taught farming, carpentry, and weaving. They were also important in preserving knowledge. They made copies of important works, such as the Bible and works of Roman and Greek writers.

Section Review• Questions 1, 3, 4, 5 on page 333 [10 minutes]

Q. 1• Why Battle of Tours significant?

A. 1

*Charles Martel led the Franks against the Muslim army and stopped the Muslim advance into Europe.

Q. 3• Diagram to describe role of monks in medieval Europe.

Monks

Provided schools

Rest stops

hospitals

Spread Christianity

Q. 4• How Charlemagne [Charles the Great] support education?

Answer

*He opened a palace school for children of officials. The scholar, Alcuin, taught classes.

Question• What ideas did monks help spread across Europe?

Answer

*Ideas about carpentry, weaving, better farming methods were ideas that monks help spread across Europe.

Ch. 6, Section 2• Vassal?

A. 1• A noble who served a lord of higher rank

Q. 2• Crop rotation? How increase amount of food?

A.2• Peasants rotated crops among three fields, keep two-thirds

planted at all times.

Q. 3

Shift of power from kings to nobles during Middle Ages?

A. 4• Europe had no central gov’t. Nobles began to collect taxes and

enforce laws.• See birth of feudalism – transferring of power from kings to

nobles who then governed/protected people in exchange for services [e.g., fighting in noble’s army or farming the land]

Q. 5• Increase in trade lead to growth of cities/towns?

A. 5• Trade brought more people and prosperity to cities/towns.

Q. 6• Guilds? Why important?

A. 6• Guilds were business groups organized by craftspeople; • Determined quality of products, production, prices

Q. 7• Barter system – shift to $ system change medieval Europe’s

economy?

A. 7• Trade, banks and coinage made economy more efficient,

allowed