Warm Up – October 8 Grab the handout from the front table and answer the following questions on your notes: 1. What was the government of the Middle Ages? What was the economy of the Middle Ages? 2. Who owned the land in Feudalism? Who ran the land for the king? Who protected the land? Who works on the land? 3. Who fought in the Crusades? What were they fighting over? 4. How can the Crusades be considered a “successful failure” for Christians and Western Europe? 5. How did the plague spread from Asia to North Africa and Europe? What effect did it have on Europe?

Unit 4: Middle Ages Effects of the Crusades, Black Death, Magna Carta and the Hundred Years War

EFFECTS OF CRUSADES Commercial Revolution EXPANSION OF TRADE AND BUSINESS Business and Banking Creation of Trade Fairs Revival of Learning – universities are created Urban Life Flourishes – people return to cities

Bubonic Plague (Black Death) 1300s - DEADLY DISEASE AFFECTED PARTS OF ASIA, NORTH AFRICA, AND EUROPE DESTROYED SOCIETIES KILLED ⅓ OF THE POPULATION OF EUROPE

EFFECTS OF THE PLAGUE ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL EFFECTS OF THE PLAGUE TOWN POPULATIONS FELL TRADE DECLINES BELIEF IN THE CHURCH DECLINES NOBLES AND PEASANTS FIGHT OVER WAGES JEWS WERE BLAMED FOR THE PLAGUE (So people would not blame the Church)

EFFECTS OF THE CRUSADES and the Black Death FEUDALISM LITTLE TRADE NO UNIFICATION IN GOVERNMENT POPULATION IS SPREAD OUT AND RURAL END OF FEUDALISM LOTS OF TRADING STRONG CENTRALIZED GOVERNMENTS POPULATION RETURNS TO CITIES

ENGLAND AND FRANCE DEMOCRACY DEVELOPS IN BOTH FRANCE AND ENGLAND CENTRALIZED GOVERNMENT GOVERN LANDS BOTH NEAR AND FAR AWAY COMMON LAW COURT SYSTEMS INCLUDING COMMONERS IN DECISION MAKING PROCESS KINGS FIGHTING AGAINST CHURCH FOR POWER

MAGNA CARTA GOVERNMENT KINGS WANTED TO INCREASE POWER OVER NOBLES AND CHURCH NOBLES WANTED TO MAKE SURE THEY HELD ONTO CERTAIN POLITICAL RIGHTS NOBLES CREATED A DOCUMENT CALLED THE MAGNA CARTA

MAGNA CARTA GUARANTEED CERTAIN BASIC POLITICAL RIGHTS NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION RIGHT TO JURY TRIAL PROTECTION OF THE LAW

MAGNA CARTA NOBLES WANTED TO GUARANTEE FOR THEMSELVES CERTAIN RIGHTS, LIMIT KING’S POWERS RIGHTS WERE EVENTUALLY APPLIED TO REGULAR CITIZENS

HUNDRED YEARS WAR - ORIGINS FRENCH KING DIED WITHOUT A HEIR ENGLISH LEADER EDWARD III – A RELATIVE OF FRENCH KINGS CLAIMED OWNERSHIP OF FRENCH THRONE EDWARD III LAUNCES ATTACK AGAINST FRANCE – FIGHTING GOES ON AND OFF FROM 1337-1453

HUNDRED YEARS WAR - FIGHTING ENGLISH USE OF THE LONGBOW ABLE TO KILL MANY SOLDIERS FROM A LONG RANGE ENGLISH AND FRENCH AGREED TO LET ENGLISH LEADER HENRY V WOULD INHERIT THE CROWN ONCE THE CURRENT FRENCH KING DIED JOAN OF ARC, FRENCH PEASANT GIRL, LED A CHARGE BY THE FRENCH ARMY TO FINALLY DEFEAT THE ENGLISH



IMPACT OF HUNDRED YEARS WAR STRONG SENSE OF NATIONALISM IN BOTH ENGLAND AND FRANCE POWER AND PRESTIGE OF FRENCH MONARCHY INCREASED ENGLISH LEADERSHIP FOUGHT AMONGST EACH OTHER OVER WHO SHOULD LEAD

Black Death Project (Quiz Grade) Today – work on finishing magazine ad and writing the script for your commercial In your video – you have to either show the product or the packaging for your product If you show me the magazine ad, script and have the product or packaging – I can write you a pass to go film When filming, no interrupting other classes – must be quiet in the hallways – can film in the cafeteria commons, media center conference rooms, or in the workrooms Once you finish filming – come back to the room (shouldn’t take longer than 15 – 20 minutes)

TOD - October 8 Answer the following questions on the same post it as the warm up: 1. Why did nobles in England create the Magna Carta? 2. What important United States document did the Magna Carta influence? How did it influence it? 3. Why did England and France fight the Hundred Years War? What invention allowed England to begin winning the war? Which individual would help rally the French? 4. Who won the Hundred Years War? What impact did the war have on England and France?