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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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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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. 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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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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