1. Medieval Times

2. Do Now Why do you think historians would name an era The Middle Ages?
It fell in the middle of ancient times and modern times
Ancient Greek and Roman Times Middle Ages Renaissance
BCE CE
The Dark Ages?
No new learning, The Bubonic Plague (Black Death)
What do you think is the meaning behind the word Medieval?
-it is from the Latin: medium aevum; meaning middle ages

3. The Fall of the Roman Empire
So, what started it all?
The Fall of the Roman Empire
Caused a period of wars throughout Europe
People were forced to create walled towns known as manors or fiefs

4. The Manor or fief Self sufficient, walled town
owned by a wealthy lord (land lord)
people who lived there paid him for protection
Townspeople created shops and villages,
peasants farmed the land for the lord

5. What similarities do you see in these diagrams of a manor?

6. The Manor or fief Things found there Lord’s house (castle)
Townspeople’s homes and shops (village)
Peasant’s homes (huts)
Church
Fields/pastures/forest/
streams

7. Feudalism
System where people work for and on the lord’s land in exchange for his protection.
The King grants land to nobles (lords) & in exchange they provide soldiers to fight for him.
Peasants, called serfs, work the land for the lord.
Based on a strict hierarchy (ranking system) of social classes.