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UNIT 2: European Middle Ages, 500-1500

1. Barbarian kingdoms and Charlemagne.

Why did it start?

MIDDLE AGES IN 3 MINUTES

The Middle Ages: What is it?

Middle ages began

well...

Name given to the time period after the gradual decline of the Roman Empire.

  • Lasts roughly 1000 years, 500-1500

  • The Middle Ages were a period of about a thousand years in European history. They started around the year 476 ce when the Western Roman Empire ended and continued until around the time Christopher Columbus arrived in the New World in 1492.

  • The 'Middle Ages' are called this because it is the time between the fall of Imperial Rome and the beginning of the Early modern Europe.

  • This period of time is also known as the Medieval Age, the Dark Ages (due to the lost technology of the Roman empire), or the Age of Faith (because of the rise of Christianity and Islam).

Geography and its effects on Middle Age Europe

The geography in Europe had a huge impact on the lives of the citizens in the Middle Ages. Those who lived by the mountains were in a good place for protection and shelter, but it was just as hard for them to escape the mountains as it was for invaders to attack. Also, life in the mountains wasn't a very popular trade site. On the contrary, living by the sea or rivers had great advantages for trade with places near and far. Living in forests had advantages with animal availability for food and living in an open space meant vulnerability but it was easier to be in contact with other groups. The geography in the Middle Ages had its ups and downs, as it does with many areas of land, but it all contributes to what we know about the Middle Ages today.

Geography and its effects on Middle Age Europe

Maps of Europe

Europe during the Middle Ages and now

Causes of the Middle Ages

CAUSES

  • Fall of Rome

  • Invasions

  • Disruption of Trade: Merchant trade collapsed, and Europe’s economic centers were destroyed. Money also became scarce.

  • Downfall of cities: Cities were abandoned as centers of administration.

  • Population shifts: Roman cities left without strong leadership. Europe became mostly rural.

  • Decline of learning: Germanic invaders could not read or write. Learning became less important as people moved to rural areas.

  • Loss of a common language: Latin changed as Germanic people mixed with Roman population.

Conclusion

CONCLUSION

FUN FACTS

Facts about the Middle Ages

  • In the 1200s, northern Europe's largest towns--London, Paris and Ghent--contained no more than 30,000 or 40.000 residents. Southern European cities like Venice and Florence had over 100,000. The world s largest cities--Constantinople and Baghdad--each had about a million people. How do these figures compare with the population of your city or town?

  • Europeans established the world's first universities in the 1100s. Like the world outside then, the university could be a violent place: Oxford University in England had rules that specifically forbid students from bringing bows and arrows to class.

  • Under Medieval law, animals could be tried and sentenced for crimes, just as though they were people. There are records of farm animals being tried for injuring or killing people. Animals were charged with smaller crimes, too. Some mice were taken to court for stealing part of the harvest, and, in another case, a flock of locusts was convicted --in absentia--of eating crops

  • In the early Middle Ages, Europeans told time in a way that would seem very strange to us today. They divided the day into 7 hours' of equal length. Because summer days are longer than winter ones, a winter 'hour" was about 60 minutes, but a summer one was 150 minutes! By the late 1300s, Europeans had mechanical clocks and often installed them in the towers of churches and town halls.

  • A number of European advances during the Middle Ages were made possible by the Moorish occupation of Spain. Most important was the use of Arabic numerals, which we still use today. The Moors also brought new words to Europe. "Algebra," "lute," "magazine," "orange ," and "tariff" all come from Arabic. In addition, the Moors introduced a game that quickly became popular from Cadiz to London: chess.

  • https://themiddleages.net/life/facts.html

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