Essential Question: What factors shaped daily life and continent-wide trends in medieval Eurasia?
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17.1 Medieval Society and Politics - How did power and social class impact life in Medieval Europe?
17.2 - The Black Death - How did the Black Death spark social, political, and economic change throughout Europe?
17.1 Cornell Notes Questions
17.1 Cornell Notes Questions
Slides 2-4: The Feudal System
What is Europe bordered by?
What is the climate of Europe?
What are the Middle Ages?
How did the fall of the Western Roman Empire impact Europe?
What did Charlemagne do when he came into power?
What was the significance of Charlemagne being crowned as the Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Leo III?
What were some of Charlemagne’s accomplishments as king?
What happened to Europe after Charlemagne's death?
Summary: How did the fall of Rome impact Europe?
Slide 5: A New System
What is feudalism?
Who could be a lord?
Who were vassals?
What did the vassals promise the lords?
How were disputes between lords and vassals settled?
Summary: What political system arose in Europe after the fall of the Western Roman Empire?
Slide 6: Feudal Society
What four social classes were involved in the hierarchical social system?
What was the role of a king?
Were the kings powerful? Who ruled over the lands?
Who were the members of nobility?
Who were the church officials?
Who were the knights?
What rights were the peasants given?
Summary: What was feudal society like in the Middle Ages?
Slides 7-8: Manorialism
What was the economic system called in medieval Europe and what was its focus?
How was a manor developed?
How did a manor function?
How did peasants contribute to a manor?
What did the lord provide their peasants?
What is a serf?
Why did the population increase?
How did manorialism support the aristocracy?
Summary: What was manorialism?
Slide 9: The Rise of Kings
How did the economy of the High Middle Ages get stronger?
Where did the trade route develop?
How did feudalism weaken?
How did the economic recovery affect kings?
What happened during the Late Middle Ages?
Summary: How did kings gain more power?
Slide 10: The Great Charter
What are the two names (same person) of the King of England during this time?
What do we know about Richard I?
What happened after Richard’s death?
What did the Magna Carta do?
Summary: What is the Magna Carta?
Slides 11-12: Growing Power of the Church
What two cities in Europe were centers of power for Christianity?
How did the Byzantine Empire begin?
How was the medieval Church in both Western and Eastern Europe similar?
What were some of the rules monks had to live by?
How did the Church in the West gain more power?
How did political leaders influence the church?
How did the Church in Eastern Europe differ from the Western Church?
What led to the final division between the Eastern and Western wings of the Christian Church?
Summary: How did religious power and political power overlap in Medieval Europe?
Slide 13: Beginning of the Crusades
Who considered present-day Israel the Holy Land?
What happened when Muslim Arabs took control of the Holy Land?
How did the Crusades begin?
What was the purpose of the Crusades?
What was the result of the First and Second Crusade?
Summary: What were the Crusades?
Slide 14: The End of the Crusades
What happened during the Third Crusade?
Why did the Fourth Crusade fail?
What was the Children’s Crusade?
What were some positive outcomes of the Crusades?
Summary: What were the major events of the third and fourth Crusades?
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