MEDIEVAL
its essential knowledge
the medieval ages lasted from about 500 AD to 1500
LEARN ABOUT THE DARK MEDIEVAL TIMES!!
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Intro
could afford castles because they
took years to make and they had to The medieval times was a very dark gloomy time filled with disease ship lots of limestone water and and death. sand. In the late 12th to 11th In this magazine you will be reading about Medieval Military, Disease, and feudalism.
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century in became more common to have round towers and dungeons. But around the 13th to
Castles in medieval Europe
14th century castles were not being constructed as much because of the invention of gunpowder and cannons. A single well aimed shot
Castles in Europe started
could knock down a castle wall to developing around the 9th and 10th they began to be useless. century. The first locations that they were being made was in northwestern france because in that area there was a lot of viking attacks going on. In the 9th century castles were mainly wood and some stone but as time went on they began using stone and sometimes even brick because these materials were more fire resistant. Only wealthy people
The two pictures on the top and bottom are pictures of different European castles. The one in the middle is a picture of a castle dungeon
castles are big
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BLACK DEATH this is a picture of what the black death would do to you
you would usually developed symptoms like gavocciolos The black death was also a very which was a lump on your skin which bleed and released puss. big event that peaked in People think that the the 1346-1353. Killing over twenty disease started in Asia and five million people or 60% of moved along the silk road but europe's population it is the once it reached europe's biggest plague in recorded history. The disease spread was seaports in the end of 1346 the increased by how people did not disease excelled extremely fast. After the disease died down it clean themselves as much as took 150 years for Europe to they do now, but the disease is regain its population. spread by a bacteria called Yersinia pestis which at the time was mainly found of fleas on rats. Once you had the bacteria
Black Death
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This is a picture of the Yersinia pestis. The beetle that lived on rats and in knows for spreading the black plague
The feudal Government Feudalism is a government system that is based in rankings that was the dominant social system in medieval Europe. For example the peasants would be at the bottom and the kings
it died down was because of the black plague. When it killed over half of the population the people began to ask for more rights and they lost trust in god and the church who had been controlling most of the people In conclusion The medieval
Dear Mother,
I have been thinking of you all the time and really need help. I have a new
would be at the top. The way the times was a very dark gloomy time filled with disease and ranking work is that the king would give a vassal (lord) a thief death.
master named bear who I
of his land and then the lord
help when we split up in
gave a house and land to grow
the city he was captured
crops on in exchange for
and I don't know how to
protection, loyalty and a
save him. what should I do.
percentage of the crops that
travel around with and entertain. But I need your
Love, Crispen
were grow, taxes were paid with merchandise not currency. The
Dear Crisper,
feudal ages in Europe were around the 10th to 15th century
I don't know how to
and one of the biggest reasons
help you good luck I know you will figure out a way. Love, Asta
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Works Cited "Black Death." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 14 Apr. 2015. "Castle." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 14 Apr. 2015. "Feudalism." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 14 Apr. 2015. Gravett, Christopher. Knight: Eyewitness Books. Alfred A. Knopf.: n.p., n.d. Print.
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Lexicon Organizer
TYPE YOUR TIME PERIOD
Choose 20 words from your bookmark that BEST REFLECT the historical time period in which your book takes pla ORGANIZE the words in ALPHABETICAL ORDER!!!
Word
Part of Speech (noun, verb, adj)
Definition (in context with the story)
Sentence from book & Page #
How is this word meaningful to the time period of your book? Explain.
.balif
noun
a position in medieval times
the bailiff and the Reeve always i related it to the time set her difficult tasks period
.crispen
noun
a person in book
in faith Crispen you have a servile look
its the main character
.forefathers
noun
an ancestor
it was no doubt the life my forefathers had led 15
i had never heard it
.goodwife
noun
the mistress of a household
meet me at goodwife peregrines i had never heard it house 39 before
.genuflected
verd
to bend the knee or touch one knee to the floor in reverence or worship.
near the altar the priestn
i had never heard it before
.highborn
adj
to be born into a high rank
As… a highborn lord… or a king.”
i thought it was related to the time period
.kin
adjective
a family relationship
“are you not her kin”35
i related it to the time period
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genuflected
Lexicon Organizer
TYPE YOUR TIME PERIOD H
Choose 20 words from your bookmark that BEST REFLECT the historical time period in which your book takes place. ORGANIZE the words in ALPHABETICAL ORDER!!! . mirth
noun
amusement or laughter
for mirth is the coin that brings us welcome
i had never heard it
.manor
noun
a district of land given to a lord by a king
a peice of land given from a king to a lord
i related it to the time period
.surname
noun
the name that a person has in common with other family members
had your mother no surname
i had never heard it
.riotous
adj
to have a life as a reble
his riotous life 104
I thought it was related to the time period
.oft
adverd
shorted of often
oft the butt of just
I related it to the time period
.surname
noun
the name that a person has in common with other family members
had your mother no surname
i had never heard it
.steward
noun
the right hand man of a lord
the steward of the manor
I related it to the time period
.sprung
verb
a sudden event
a breeze had sprung 103
i thought it was interesting
19.starry
adj
abounding of stars
beneath the starry vault of Heaven 15
i had never heard it
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TYPE YOUR TIME PERIOD HERE
Choose 20 words from your bookmark that BEST REFLECT the historical time period in which your book takes place. ORGANIZE the words in ALPHABETICAL ORDER!!! 18.shunned
verb
to be forced to stay away from a place
“I lived the life of the shunned” 13
i reated it to the time period
20.shrewd
adj
to be sharp and crafty
watching me intently with his shrewd eyes
i had never heard it
20.tolling
verb
a loud repetitive sound
the sound of a tolling bell that woke me 16
i had never heard it
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