Ben F Medieval

April 14

SWORDS,CROWNS AND RAGS

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This is the holy crown of Hungary. It was used by the kingdom of Hungary . It was also known as the crown of saint Stephen

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KNIGHTS

500 - 1500

This is a model of a sword from the middle ages.

Knights from the middle ages In The middle ages knights were very common.

They were mostly in the

garments, chain mail and Iron plate. Most knights were nobles that had trained their

hole life to become a Knight. kingdoms of France, England, A Knights sole duty was to Europe and Spain. Tales of serve his lord or king, to king Arthurs Knights became rescue nobles, to protect the encouraged to be told to church and its people, and to inspire the knights to be be chivalrous. brave and chivalrous. A knight from the middle ages wore a complex series of

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This is a model of what a Knight would ware. Under the chest plate is more chain mail.

The peasants revolt

Kings Of The Middle Ages

The image below is a painting of the peasants revolt which took place in 1381 all across England.

The reason they revolted is because the king had to much power

This is an image of King Charlemagne who was king of the Franks. The scepter he holds is called The Danish globus cruciger.

Kings !

were loosing power. What could they do? Why not take it from the church. Emperor Henry IV decided to replace Pope Gregory VII. When the other kings heard of this they decided to do it to. Soon kings had so much power, they could do what ever they wanted. The peasants became angry and revolted.

Soon King John of England was forced to either lose all his power, or limit it. He chose to limit it, and signed a document called the Magna Carta. It is what inspired americans to revolt and become a free country.

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SERFS

middle ages

For sefs lives were tough. they had no free will to do as they wished.

This is a painting of serfs laboring

THE SERFS DAILY LIVES Serfs were like peasants, but were not free to make their own diction's.

They did have the choice to become serfs though. In order to become a serf they had to sign a contract stating that in turn for land, protection and being aloud to keep some of the food that they grew. If they

didn’t they would have to fend for themselves and risk being killed by barbarians. The serfs had to labor everyday, they even had a task master to make sure they did. Lords could do what ever they wanted to do to their serfs.

The serfs also had to fight wars from time to time.

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Serf house Serfs were luck if they had a house with more than one room.

Most didn't even have bathrooms or outhouses.

Dark Times

killed more then 2/3 of earths population, or

The middle ages was 200 million people.

LETTER OF ADVICE

a very dark time. In fact, Soon they were no it was the darkest time

longer able to burry the

period in history. The

bodies. There was also

reason it was so dark is the stop of trade, because of many wars, therefor most were such as the crusades,

poor. Doctors called

which lasted 200 years. plague doctors, refused Then there was the

to see patients, and

hundred year war and

even today we sing ring

the barbarians. But

around the rosy which

worst of all there was

is about the bubonic

the bubonic plague. It

plague.

This is a painting of the black death and the destruction it caused

Dear mother,

I know not what to do. I have been declared a wolfs head and was framed for a crime I didn’t commit, and now they have taken my friend Bear, please Mother I know not what to do.

Sincerely, Crispin.

Dearest son,

You must force them to give your friend back and let you go in peace. Force their leader to swear on your cross to give him back and let you go, Sincerely your mother

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"Middle Ages." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 14 Apr. 2015. ‘Notes from social studies class�

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Choose 20 words from your bookmark that BEST REFLECT the historical time period in which your book takes plac ORGANIZE the words in ​ALPHABETICAL ORDER​!!!

Word

1. England

Part of Speech (noun, verb, adj)

Definition

Sentence from book & Page #

(in context with the story)

How is this word meaningful to the time period of your book? Explain.

Noun

A country

England, A.D. 1377

1. Tells the place the book takes place in

2. 1377

Noun

A date

England A.D. 1377

3. King Edward III

Noun

A person

The thirty sixth year of the reign King of that time period of Edward the third

4. Stromford

Noun

A village where chrispin lives

we resided in stromford village, with its one hundred fifty souls.

The town exact place

5. Great wexly

noun

city where events in story take place

there are cities enough, canterbury, great wexly, winchester

6. john ball

noun

person who led revolts

i'm afraid john ball has just arrived leader of many serf

7. The black death

noun

a major plague

killed many people one of the main reasons the medieval times id

8. Aycliffe

noun

main antagonist

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its the actual time period

revolts

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9. Chrispin

noun

the protagonist

10. Bear

noun

the protagonists guide

11. god

noun

12. christianity

noun

the religion that the story is based around

13. sword

noun

a sharp weapon

indicates that it is before guns

14. torch

noun

a light source

indicates that it is before man made light

15. lord furnival

noun

crispins father

16. european christian church

noun

the catholic church

17. Heretic

noun

a term used in the middle ages for non believers

tells the time it took place in

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18. serf

noun

word used for peasants in medieval times

indicates time period

19. farthing

noun

a coin worth ¼ a penny

indicates time period

20. portcullis

noun

a gate on a castle

indicates time period

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