Transcript Middle Ages - Mrs. Uzzle`s Class

The Feudal System
Parts of Medieval Castle
The Road to Knighthood
KNIGHT
SQUIRE
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Medieval Warfare
Siege Tower
• Had a platform on top that lowered like a drawbridge
• Could support weapons and soldiers
Battering Ram
• Made of heavy timber with a sharp metal tip
• Swung like a pendulum to crack castle walls or to knock
down drawbridge
Trebuchet
• Worked like a giant slingshot
• Propelled objects up to a distance of 980 feet
• Propelled boulders, severed human heads, captured
soldiers, diseased cows, dead horses, pots of boiling lime
Tortoise
• Moved slowly on wheels
• Sheltered soldiers from falling arrows
Mangonel
• Flung huge rocks that crashed into castle walls
• Propelled objects up to 1,300 feet
Mantlet
• shielded soldiers like a wall
Chivalry: A Code of Honor and
Behavior
Chivalry
Troubadours
How to be Chivalrous
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IIwS6XgzR4
Class Demonstration!
Medieval Manor
Life on Medieval Manor
Serfs at work
Power of the Medieval Church
 Church becomes involved in politics
 the church controlled about 1/3 of the
land in Western Europe.
curb heresies  crusades; Inquisition
 tithe  1/10 tax on your assets given to
the church.
 Peter’s Pence  1 penny per person
[paid by the peasants].
The Church Wields Power
• Clergy
• Interdict
• Canon Law
• Lay Investiture
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weMh
SSYoRi4
Crash Course: Crusades
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0zudT
QelzI
Spanish Inquisition
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89Xv4
mV1BIs&list=PL2B7233B6FE9075EC&ind
ex=6
Bubonic Plague
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZy6XilXD
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Pope Clement, Avignon, France
Hundred Years’ War
Joan of Arc
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQyd
MhY9OpI&list=PL2B7233B6FE9075EC&in
dex=43
Crash Course: Dark Ages
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV7C
anyzhZg&list=PLetucZbRiTAtUXbRbdlcPV
co0MwI25SIn&index=1