Welcome to AP Euro with Ms Greenberg! What is on my desk? -Unit calendar (more detail tomorrow but see tonight’s assignment) -Thesis assignment DUE FRIDAY -Syllabus (to discuss tomorrow) -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? 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.

Assignment #1: Dark Age to Rebirth Please write in response to the following: 1.What does it mean for society to be in a “Dark Age”? 2.What does it mean for society to experience a “rebirth”? 3.Are we in a Dark Age? A rebirth? Defend your claim.

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. It was their belief that “medieval thought” was a contradiction of terms.

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

Crisis #1: The Black Plague

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.”

Crisis #2: 100 Years’ War OK…so it is 130 years long….

Joan of Arc

Peasant Revolts The Jacquerie and Wat Tylers Rebellion

Crisis #3: The Great Schism Changing views on religion

Re-Birth?