Welcome to AP Euro with Ms Greenberg! What is on my desk? -Unit calendar (more detail tomorrow but see tonight’s assignment) - Syllabus (to discuss tomorrow signature for Monday) -Textbook

What are we doing today? We are jumping right in with your first official lecture! What? Wait! What about course information? What about learning our names and who we are? Don’t you care? What about learning what I need for this course? Aaaaaaaaah!!!!!

Have no fear….we will do all of that tomorrow. This lecture enables you to understand your HW tonight. You will have many questions about the course and they will be answered. AP Euro is like a “freezing lake” – sometimes it is best to just jump in.

Dark Age to Rebirth The Late Middle Ages (14 th Century) have often been called the “Dark Ages” - so coined by those Renaissance scholars (15 th and early 16 th century) who…for lack of a better word, liked to hate on the Middle Ages and characterize them as worse than their own time. Oppositely, the Renaissance has been called a “rebirth” out of the Dark Ages. We don’t learn much about the Middle Ages in this class, but we do like to compare them to the Renaissance. Because of this we try and understand what was so different about the two time periods.

Assignment #1: What is a Dark Age? Please write in response to the following: 1.What does it mean for society to be in a “Dark Age”? How do you define “Dark Age” 2.Are we in a Dark Age? Or a rebirth? Think about some of the following aspects of our society in your answer? political, social, economic, intellectual, artistic and religious

Acronyms to Know and Love PSE – Politically, Social, Economic PERSIA – Political, Economic, Religious Intellectual, Social, Artistic

The Late Middle Ages AKA “The Dark Ages”

Goals of this lecture: 1.To understand why the 14 th Century was a time of Crisis 2.To be able to contrast the late Middle Ages with the “rebirth” of society in the Renaissance

The late Middle Ages were once referred to as the “Dark Ages.” This term was coined by Renaissance scholars who prided themselves on their knowledge of Greek and Roman Classics. They thought the Middle Ages had nothing to offer

Was it really so dark? Maybe…. 1.Plague 2.War 3.Religious troubles

POLITICAL -Feudalism: a rigid social structure.

Political Crisis: 100 Years’ War While most kings were small-time, some large states emerged who fought over the balance of power. The 100 Years War: England vs. France

Joan of Arc

SOCIAL

Social (Religious) Crisis: The Great Schism Changing views on religion

The Black Plague: Social Crisis brings ECONOMIC change

One Writer of the Day Said… “In one house you might hear them roaring with the pangs of death, and in the next tippling, whoring and belching out blasphemies against God.”

Re-Birth?

Give specific examples from your HW that would provide evidence for this quote In the Middle Ages both sides of human consciousness lay dreaming or half awake beneath a common veil. The veil was woven of faith, illusion, and childish prepossession…Man was conscious of himself only as a member of a race, people, party, family or corporation-only through some general category. In Italy this veil first melted into air…man became a spiritual individual, and recognized himself as such. In the same way the Greek had once distinguished himself from the barbarians… When this impulse to the highest individual development was combined with a powerful and varied nature…Than arose the “all sided man”… Jacob Burchardt The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, 1878 (Secondary Source)