1. Warm-up Questions
What three groups of people played a major role in the spread of Christianity throughout Europe?
Who was responsible for sending Patrick to the British Isles?

3. Christianity Spreads North Chapter 17, Section 2 World History
The Early Middle Ages
Christianity Spreads North
Chapter 17, Section 2
World History

4. Alabama Course of Study
Standard 15: Describe military and governmental events that shaped Europe in the early Middle Ages.
Describe the role of the early medieval church.
Describe the impact of new agricultural methods on manorialism and feudalism.

5. Today’s Learning Targets
I can use academic vocabulary of this region and time appropriately.
I can identify key physical and cultural features of this region on a map.
I can analyze the importance of Patrick.
I can contrast the roles of medieval monks and missionaries.
I can infer how laypersons outside the monasteries were influenced.

6. Warm-up Questions
What three groups of people played a major role in the spread of Christianity throughout Europe?
Popes, monks, and missionaries
Who was responsible for sending Patrick to the British Isles?
Patrick took it upon himself

7. Literary Inference
To infer is to make a guess about a passage based on what you read. An inference is an idea that is drawn from a text. It is based on the details found in a text, but it is not something that is directly stated.
What you infer must be supported by the details in the text. To make an inference:
Look for clues in a text
Figure out what the author does not directly tell you
Identify the clues that help you make the inference
Look for details in the text to support the inference

8. The Thursday Blitz Todays Blitz Activity – Literary Inference.
Richard I Negotiates with Sultan Saladin
“In the morning of the tenth day of Rajab [3 August], Ibn Barîc and his comrades returned to the King of England [Richard I] while the Sultan went off with his bodyguard and his closest friends to the hill that abuts on Shefa’Amr Envoys did not cease to pass from one side to the other in the hope of laying the foundation of a firm peace. These negotiations continued till our men had procured the money and the number of prisoners that they were to deliver to the Christians at the end of the first period in accordance with the treaty. The first instalment was to consist of the Holy Cross, 100,000 dinars and 1,600 prisoners.”
—Behâ-ed-Din, as quoted in Eyewitness to History

9. Christianity Spreads to Northern Europe
What happened to the lands of northern Europe after Rome fell?
Other groups moved in and many small kingdoms developed.
This was the beginning of the ___ period. Most of these kingdoms were not ___.
medieval / Christian

10. Missionaries ___ sent ___ to northern Europe to spread ___.
Popes / missionaries / Christianity
___ was one of the first places to be converted. The most famous of these missionaries was ___ who traveled to ___.
Britain / Patrick / Ireland

11. Monks
Unlike ___, monks lived in isolated communities called ___. Most of these religious communities followed the ___ Rules.
missionaries / monasteries / Benedictine
Monks provided ___ ___, ran ___, preserved ___ ___ of Greece and Rome, and served as ___.
health care / schools / ancient writings / scribes

12. Key Terms Review
The large landmass that includes both Europe and Asia.
Eurasia
The shape and elevation of land in a region.
topography

13. Key Terms Review
The time period between ancient times and modern times.
Middle Ages
The Latin word for “middle age.”
medieval

14. Key Terms Review
Religious men who lived apart from society in isolated communities.
monks
Communities of monks.
monasteries

15. Scandinavian Peninsula
Norwegian Sea
Ural Mts.
Scandinavian Peninsula
Atlantic Ocean
North Sea
English Channel
Rhine River
Danube River
Alps Mts.
Caspian Sea
Caucasus Mts.
Black Sea
Iberian Peninsula
Italian Peninsula
Balkan Peninsula
Strait of Gibraltar

16. Today’s Learning Targets
I can use academic vocabulary of this region and time appropriately.
I can identify key physical and cultural features of this region on a map.
I can analyze the importance of Patrick.
I can contrast the roles of medieval monks and missionaries.
I can infer how laypersons outside the monasteries were influenced.