DO NOT USE YOUR NOTES FOR THIS!
Answer the following questions:
1. What is a barbarian?
2. What were their relationship with each other (ex: respected each other, fought each other..)
3. What is the name for the person who is in charge of the
Roman Catholic Church?
4. What determined if a ruler was powerful during the middle ages?
When you finish, take out your “Do-Nows”
Make sure they ALL have the proper heading on them
(INCLUDES DATE!)
Also! Take out your homework

Write the questions AND answers to the following questions on a separate piece of paper.
1. What are the different social classes in the Feudal system?
2. Why was Feudalism created?
3. In what ways did Feudalism affect the lives of Medieval residents?
When you are finished, put EVERYTHING away except for your homework and something to write with.

Feudalism at its finest!

Helps us remember the important facts
• G eography
• R eligion
• A chievements
• P olitics
• E conomy
• S ocial

• GEOGRAPHY: Europe
• RELIGION: Christianity
• ACHIEVEMENT: tools
• POLITICS: Feudalism
• ECONOMY: Farming/Trade
• SOCIAL: King  Lord  Knight  Serf

What was the geography of
• medieval Europe?
Climate
• Lots of farmland available

What was the major religion during the y takes over
• Catholic church dominant

What were the achievements of
• medieval ages?
advances
• Farming developments big

What was the political structure during the dark ages?
• Kingdoms emerge from
Roman
Empire
• Power plays between kings and church

What drove the economy during
• the dark ages?
source of wealth
• Kings claimed all the land
• Growth of merchants and trade

What was the social structure during the dark ages?
• Strict social order
• Feudal society
• Hierarch y of power

Who were barbarians and why were they important?
• a person belonging to a tribe or group that is considered uncivilized.
• After Rome fell, Europe was left without a central government or defense  invasions led to groups creating kingdoms.

• These kingdoms often fought each other

• The most powerful kings were the ones with the most land and best warriors!

• Most important leader of the Franks
• (modern-day France)
• Ruled for 40 years
• Built his empire with the help of the pope
• Unified all Christian lands in Europe
• His empire survived MANY barbarian attacks.

*Church was a central part of society!
• The Christian church headed by the Pope.
*Pope = the Supreme leader of the Roman
Catholic Church

• Today there are many forms of Christianity but in the Middle Ages there was only one:
Roman Catholicism
• Believe in one God
• Follow the teachings of Jesus

What role did the church play in the lives of medieval European residents??
• Religion played a very important role in their daily lives.
– People were married and baptized in the church
– People attended mass on
Sundays
– They gave 10% of their earnings to the church
– 3 days a week, they did not eat meat.

What role did the church play in the lives of medieval European residents??
• Since there were no strong empires or kingdoms the Church was one organization that had respect and power.
• Popes were more powerful than kings!

What role did the church play in the lives of medieval
European residents??
• The Church was led by popes. Priests and nuns converted, gave care to people

• Monks were spiritual leaders (obviously)
• They lived in monasteries and did things like copy books.

• Devoted their lives to
God
• Travelled and spread the teachings of Christianity
• Spent years transcribing the Bible since the printing press wasn’t used in Europe yet.

Churches and Cathedrals during the
Middle Ages

What was the structure of the Roman
Catholic Church in the dark ages?
Rules
Pope
Cardinal
Archbishop
Bishop
Priest

What was the relationship between kings and popes?
• BFF’s!
• Charlemagne crowned by the pope
• Starts a trend of cooperation

• Cooperation continues between kings and popes
• Until…

• 1075 C.E.
• Holy Roman
Emperor
Henry IV vs.
Pope Gregory
VII!
• Henry IV began appointing
Catholic bishops in the Holy
Roman Empire.
• Gregory VII said “ENOUGH”

800 – 900 : Europe was threatened by 3 MAIN groups
1. Muslims
2. Magyars
3. Vikings
Muslims:
- followers of Islam
- Northeast Africa, Spain
Magyars:
- central Asia
Vikings:
- Norway and Denmark

• FEUDALISM was created in response to all the Viking attacks
Monarch
Lords/Ladies
Knights
Peasants/Serfs

Rules
• William the Conqueror brought the idea around 1000 C.E.
• Provided people with protection and safety by creating a clear social order
Monarch: GET RICH
Lords: COLLECT rented land from king
Knights: PROTECT
• Provided protection for land
Serfs: WORK
• provided food, service and labor to their Lord

Rules
WHAT WERE THE RULES
OF FEUDALISM?
• During the Middle Ages, people were born in a social class for life.
• They had the same position, and often the same job, as their parents.

• Believe in one God – Allah
• Follow the teachings of Muhammad
• Most prevalent in Northern Africa,
Spain, Eastern Asia, India and Middle Eastern

• Worship in a Mosque
• Studied Muslim law in college as well as other subjects

What do Jewish people believe?
• The Jewish faith believes in one God.
• They do not have central religious authority that could make or issue a unified creed. (No figure similar to the Pope).
• Judaism stresses performance of deeds or commandments rather than adherence to a belief system.

How were non-Christians treated?
• During Medieval Times, the Jews and the Muslim people were treated horribly.
• They were often killed simply because the
Christians did not agree with their choice of religion.
• They were often blamed for plagues and wars.

• a series of battles fought over religious territory waged by much of Christian Europe

over?
• Jerusalem was important to three different religions.
*The Jews had temples there.
*The Christians considered it Holy Land
*The Muslims thought Jerusalem was important because Mohammed left
Jerusalem for heaven.

• A Muslim ruler set fire to a Catholic Church
• The Pope at the time declared it was time for a “Holy War” to take Jerusalem back .

• Disease! – illness killed more soldiers than the battles
• Christian armies even fought one another
• Jerusalem was taken over by the Christians and then taken back some years later by the
Muslims

• It is said that the Crusades caused cultures to mix and Europe to adopt different ideas.
• …And maybe was a catalyst for the
Renaissance……