Medieval Europe

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  Hello and welcome to your next social studies lesson.

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  This lesson focuses on pages 66 to 72 in your

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  Orange Social Studies book.

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  You can look at those pages after watching this lesson

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  to learn a bit more about medieval armor and the

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  coat of arms.

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  Let's begin with the review.

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  About nights before the break, we talked about how most

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  nights were the sons of noblemen, and they began their

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  training at a very young age.

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  They progressed through different stages until they were officially 90.

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  The first stage was being a page boy Page.

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  Boys were sent away from their homes to learn the

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  proper manners of a nobleman.

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  They waited on tables, learned how to ride a horse

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  and practice sword fighting skills.

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  The next stage is Squires.

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  A page way became a Squire around the age of

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  12. A Squire was a personal servant to a particular

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  night. He would follow the night and complete any tasks

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  given to him.

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  Mostly, the Squire cleans the weapons and cared for the

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  horses. The most important job was to help the night

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  into his heavy armor.

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  There were many pieces, but then they had to wear

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  and it was rather difficult to do on their own.

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  After Squires, we have nights.

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  A Squire became a night when they were about 16

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  to 20 years old.

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  The night would be presented with items like a sword

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  in a helmet if he was considered honorable and worthy

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  of the title.

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  So now that we've reviewed nights, let's talk about the

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  armor that they wore in order to protect themselves in

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  the picture, you can see that there are so many

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  different pieces, each with different and unique names.

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  We're going to focus on a few designs of armor

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  to begin with the design of armor that knights were

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  changed her at the medieval period.

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  These changes were based on better ways of protecting themselves.

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  They would recognize the design flaw and try to fix

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  it. A great example is with chain mail.

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  Armor chain was a clock like armor that was made

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  of interlocking pieces of chain.

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  Take a look at the picture of the night wearing

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  chain mail armor.

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  Chain mail armor, like the one in this picture wasn't

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  original form of armor.

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  Can you see a problem with that with just having

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  chain mail as your armor well when the chain was

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  linked together.

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  There are some spaces that happened between each loot.

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  That meant that the sword could push through pretty easily.

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  Improvements remain, and the chain mail was used underneath the

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  chest plate, which is a huge metal covering in order

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  to protect themselves further.

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  Also, the link spaces in between each chain mail became

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  smaller. Another example is the helmet.

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  The design of the helmet changed over the centuries.

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  At first the helm.

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  It kind of looks like a hat.

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  It protected the top of the head, but not really

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  too much else.

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  Another design kind of looked like a basket.

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  It covered the back inside to the head but catch

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  the face free.

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  A later designed was a self contained helmet or advisor

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  or the friends peace covering the face was able to

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  move up or down.

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  Over the course of the medieval period, more pieces of

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  armor were added to provide further protection.

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  Children arm pieces, along with leggings and gauntlets, also known

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  as metal gloves, provided full body protection from enemies to

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  read more about these and other pieces of armor, look

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  at pages 66 67 in your book.

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  Now that we've talked about armor, let's talk about the

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  coat of arms.

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  What is the coat of arms?

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  And how did it start?

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  The first coat of arms was used to distinguish one

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  night from another.

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  This was because once and I had all of his

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  armor on, you could not see who was underneath.

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  So knights began to paint symbols on their shields and

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  eventually began to put the symbol on the coach that

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  they were wearing over top of their armor.

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  This is where the name comes from.

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  Coat of arms.

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  The problem.

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  Every port of arms needed to be unique so people

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  would be able to identify each night.

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  However, there were so many nights that it was tough

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  to keep track of which symbol belong to.

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  Each night.

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  It became the job of people called heralds to keep

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  track of the code of irons.

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  The solution.

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  Over time, they became strict laws for applying for a

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  new coat of arms.

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  Each new coat of arms needed to be registered with

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  the government.

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  A coat of arms belonged to the family of the

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  night, and he would pass the coat of arms down

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  to his oldest son.

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  The design, the original design of the coat of arms

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  was simple.

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  But as more coat of arms were created, they became

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  a way more complicated.

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  This is an order for each one of them again

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  to be unique.

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  All sort of arms have similar elements, and each color,

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  image and or pattern has meeting.

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  So each picture, everything that is part of a coat

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  of arms has some sort of meaning and significance to

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  see more.

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  Um, look at pages 68 69 in your books.

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  Okay, So for this lesson, we reviewed nights.

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  We talked about different pieces of armor and we also

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  talked about the quote of arms on Google classrooms.

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  You will see what the activity is, what pages you

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  are going to be working on in your books in

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  terms of the activity and answering questions.

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  Thank you.