1. High & Late Middle Ages
Students will be able to discuss the continuous merger of Church & state & what it meant for people of England (including Papal Supremacy in 1198)
Students will be able to compare and contrast Henry II’s common law/jury system to present day U.S. courts
Students will be able to describe the importance of the Magna Carta back then & today
Students will be able to discuss the Crusades. Why did they occur? Who was fighting? Who won? What was the cultural & economic impact? How does this relate to tensions in that region today?
Students will be able to explain the impact of the Black Death on the world during the Middle Ages

2. Royal Power Middle Ages High Middle Ages (1100-1300)
Monarchs try to regain power
By late 500s England has been solidified as a country

3. Royal Power Changes William the Conqueror Henry II
Creates census for better taxing (Domesday Book)
Henry II
1154 inherits throne
develops jury system
Argues w/ friend Archbishop of Cantebury, Thomas Becket, over right of English courts to try clergy members

4. Royal Power Changes John
Son of Henry  2 enemies: King Philip II of France & Pope Innocent III
1215 overtaxing & other abuses of power
Nobles force him to sign Magna Carta
Parliament evolves
House of Lords
Nobles & high clergy
House of Commons
Knights & middle class citizens

5. France Capetians Philip II (Augustus)
987 Hugh Capet chosen to fill French throne
Philip II (Augustus)
1179 Philip becomes king
Quadrupled French holdings (includes land taken from Henry)

6. France Louis IX Philip IV Estates General 1226 becomes king
Expanded royal courts, outlawed private wars, & ended serfdom
Philip IV
Louis’s grandson
Ruthless
Estates General
1302 created by Philip
Representatives from 3 estates (classes) – clergy, nobles, & townspeople

7. Holy Roman Empire & Church
Pope or Emperor
Actions
Effects
962 - Otto I (German King)
Cooperated w/ church
Pope crowned Otto emperor
Henry IV (German Emperor)
Gregory VII (Pope)
1122- Concordat of Worms  church had sole power to elect bishops w/ spiritual authority but emperor could still grant fiefs.
1100s - Frederick I (Barbarossa) (German Emperor)
Wanted control of Italy (fails). Does arrange marriage b/w son Henry & Sicilian heiress, Constance.
1198 – Pope Innocent III
Strengthened papal power
Extended papal states
Reformed church courts

8. The Crusades (1096-1204) Islam Religion spreading
Turk invasion prevents Christians from entering Holy Land
Urban wanted to try to reconnect Roman & Byzantine empires
1187 Jerusalem fell again to Muslims – Muslim leader was Salah al-Din (Saladin)
Crusades bloody on both sides, but does increase trade & money economy

9. Reconquista
North African Muslims (Moors) conquer much of present day Spain in 700s
1469 marriage of Ferdinand & Isabella re-unifies Spain
Under Moor control there was religious toleration

10. Learning & Culture Universities Scholarship New Ideas Gothic Style
900s Medical school
1158 Legal school
1100s Train clergy
Scholarship
Started 5am for prayer, 10am, classes then til 5pm, dinner, study til bed
Must memorize what heard in lecture
Arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music, grammar, rhetoric, logic
Women not allowed
New Ideas
Muslim leaders translate works of Aristotle & other Greeks which then gets translated to other languages for people to study
Scholasticism  using reason to support Christian beliefs
Gothic Style
Flying buttresses (supports outside church so can build taller & bigger)
Creates space for stained-glass windows

11. Plague, Church, & War (1300s-1400s)
Causes of Black Death
1357 Genoese traders fall sick & spreads throughout Italy
Black Death in Europe
No way to stop it
Effects of Black Death
1/3 people died

12. Plague, Church, & War (1300s-1400s)
Causes of Hundred Years War
War between England & France
Hundred Years War Events
English winning into early 1400s
English had superior longbow weapon
France regained most territory by 1453
Effects of Hundred Years War
French kings become more powerful