1. Essays Gateway Rubric Did you pass?
Read your intro – does it make sense?
Do I know what Greece/Rome is from your intro?
Do you have a thesis? Does it have all three bullet points?

2. Did you know that you are an MYP student?
Middle Years Program (6-10 grade)
5 Different ways to look at learning
Human ingenuity
Health and Social Education
Approaches to Learning
Community and Service
Environments

3. Unit 3 Project
We are going to be looking at the concept: “Changes and Continuity”
During this time period, the following things change:
1. Values and Society
2. How the church is viewed
3. Science

4. Charlemagne Unites Germanic Kingdoms
Many Germanic kingdoms that succeeded the Roman Empire were reunited under Charlemagne’s empire.
Today you are going to tell the story of a man named Charlemagne in the form of a children’s book
Every slide I do should probably be a page in the book
Need to have:
Main Ideas and people
Simple language
Pictures

5. Warmup
I need an actor to demonstrate what happened to the East side of the Roman Empire
I need another actor to demonstrate what happened to the West side of the Roman Empire

6. Pg. 1 Middle Ages Have you heard of “Medieval Times?”
Medieval period = A.D
New society rooted in:
Classical heritage of Rome
Beliefs of the Roman Catholic Church
Customs of various Germanic tribes

7. Invasions of Western Europe
Pg. 2
Invasions of Western Europe
Do you remember one of the immediate causes of the fall of the Western Roman Empire again?
Germanic invasions!!!
How would the invasions alter the following?
Economy:
Trade and businesses decreased
Government:
cities were abandoned
Culture:
People become less “civilized”, farming becomes more important nobles

8. SURVIVAL MODE What do people need for survival?
Food & water
Shelter
What do you NOT care about when trying to survive?
Language
Culture

9. Pg. 3 Decline of Learning Germanic invaders were illiterate
Education becomes less important
Greek knowledge was lost
Germanic tribes had a rich oral tradition of songs and legends but no writing
Bye bye smart Rome!

10. Loss of a Common Language
Pg. 4
Loss of a Common Language
What would happen to the English language if Russia invaded and lived among us?
Latin language changed.
Different dialects emerged
800s: French, Spanish, and other Roman-based languages evolved from Latin
Another example of how a unified empire continues to break up

11. Concept of Government Changes
Rome:
Loyalty to public government and written laws
Citizenship in a public state
Emperors or kings had loyalty
Germanic Kingdoms:
Family ties and personal loyalty
Small communities governed by unwritten rules and tradition
Loyalty to chief
Even die for them in battle
Pg. 5

12. Pg. 6
Clovis & the Franks
Franks held power in Gaul (France and Switz.)
Clovis was the leader
496 – In battle, he prayed to Christian God….?
They won and he converted
511: Clovis united the Franks into one kingdom
Why do we care?
Clovis + Roman Church = Politics + Religion

13. So after what we have talked about, which of the following institutions do you think remained in the Western Roman Empire?
Political institutions
Economic institutions
Educational institutions
Religious institutions
The Church was the sole surviving institution of the Roman Empire.
During this time of political chaos, the Church provided order and security.

14. Religion in the Middle Ages
Pg. 7
Religion in the Middle Ages
Monasteries were established
Monks and nuns were educated
Pope Gregory I
Made the Church a secular power (worldly)
Center of Roman government
Raised armies, repair roads, and help the poor
Italy to England and Spain to Germany fell under his responsibility

15. Pg. 8 Carolingian Dynasty
Family dynasty that ruled the Franks from
Pepin the Short, then his son CHARLEMAGNE
Charlemagne – first to reunite Western Europe!
Became larger than the Byzantine Empire
Became the most powerful king in the West

16. Pg. 9 Charlemagne Crushed an unruly mob who had attacked Pope Leo III
Pope crowned him EMPEROR
Why do we care?
FIRST time a pope had claimed the political right to confer the title “Roman Emperor”
Demonstrated that what was now joined:
Germanic Power
Church
Roman Empire

17. Charlemagne’s Effects
Pg. 10
Charlemagne’s Effects
Education revival
Learned how to read and write
Opened schools to train children and monks
When Charlemagne died, his son was ineffective
Grandsons divided the empire and lost the strong leadership of the Carolingian kings
If kings won’t lead…who will?