Costuming The Second Age

Using google docs or google pages you will make a project depicting appropriate and historically accurate costuming in a variate of distinct periods.

Steps

1. Select a time from the Dark Age.

2. research costuming of the period in that location. Select 20 pictures of each gender from the period. 40 in total. 5 from each gender must be of primary sources. Incorporate them into a presentation either in google Docs or Pages. Sight your sources. Every picture should have a URL associated with it. Include notes on materials used and the availability of color.

3 you must create a Color sketch for each: one wealthy male one wealthy female, one poor or common class male and one poor or common class female. Include accessory where appropriate. include the age and position, title, or occupation of each character costume.

If the quality of your sketch is to poor, you will be required to write a 100 word descriptive paragraph.

4. Enplane your choices in 50 to 100 words for each costume.

Time periods / Location

Dark-age

c 537 A.D. England

570 -632 A.D. Middle East

771 central Europe

1040 Scotland

1214 Peking China

1320 Mali

Renaissance Age

1337–1453

Hundred Years' War—English and French kings fight for control of France.

1347–1351

At least 25 million people die in Europe's “Black Death” (bubonic plague).

1398

Tamerlane, the Mongol conqueror, begins last great conquest—Delhi.

1415

Henry V defeats French at Agincourt.

1428

Joan of Arc leads French against English

1455

The Wars of the Roses

1492

Moors conquered in Spain

1497

Vasco da Gama

1517

Martin Luther posts his 95 theses

1532

Pizarro

1556

Akbar the Great

1570

Japan permits visits of foreign ships.

1607

Jamestown, Virginia, established

1620

Pilgrims,

1633

Inquisition forces Galileo (astronomer) to recant his belief in Copernican theory.

1644

End of Ming Dynasty in China

1689

Peter the Great becomes Czar of Russia

Victorian Age

1765

James Watt invents the steam engine.

Modern Age