Middle Ages Review

What were the defining aspects of the Middle Ages?

What were the defining

aspects of the Middle Ages?

Essential Question

What do you know about the Middle

Ages?

Time period: 5th

century – 15th century

Renaissance will begin in the 14th century and last until the 17th century

Review of the Middle Ages

Countries are being

consolidated and cities grow Most areas are controlled by

Monarchies (England, France) or powerful families (Italy)

Church has political power

Political

Most people worked on a

manor for a lord and harvested the crops

Peasants were taxed heavily Most people farm; however,

trade is growing

Economic

Catholic Church is all powerful and only church in Europe

Often helped control the government/laws

Crusades – Christians vs. Muslims vs. Jews (11th-13th century) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh-JGjIZ

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Religious

Feudalism – society is divided based on land/wealth Lords, Knights, Peasants Women have no power

Entertainment – revolved around the Church (singing, dinners, etc…)

Social

MEDIEVAL LIFECooperation and

Mutual Obligations

KING

LORDS (VASSALS TO KING)

KNIGHTS (VASSALS TO LORDS)

Fief and Peasants

Military Aid

Food Protection Shelter

Food Protection Shelter

PEASANTS (SERFS)Pay Rent

Fief and Peasants

Food Protection Shelter

Farm the Land

Homage Military Service

Loyalty

FEUDALISM: POLITICAL SYSTEM

Decentralized, local government

Dependent upon the relationship between members of the nobility

Lord and his vassals administered justice and were the highest authority in their land

MANORIALISM: ECONOMIC SYSTEM

Agriculture the basis for wealth

Lands divided up into self-sufficient manors

Peasants (serfs) worked the land and paid rent In exchange for protection

Barter the usual form of exchange

Arts – again, revolved

around the Church/Bible Education – nobility and

clerics tended to be educated. Majority of people were not

Intellectual

Medicine was often a

risky business. Bloodletting was a popular method of restoring a patient's health.

Early surgery was without anesthesia.

Bloodletting

Medical treatment was

available mainly to the wealthy, and those living in villages rarely had the help of doctors, who practiced mostly in the cities and courts. Remedies were often herbal in nature, but also included ground earthworms, urine, and animal excrement.

Medical Treatment

Resources – used trade to

get goods from Asia A little at a time = expensive

Shipping from the Mediterranean

Area/Geography