1. 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?

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

3. 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

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

5. 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)

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

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

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

11. 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

12. 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

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14. 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

15. 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)

16. 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?