Middle Ages and The Crusades

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Middle Ages and The Crusades

• Global II Regents Review
• Patten/Valdner

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Middle Ages

• Charlemagne was a Frankish King who helped spread
  Christianity over Europe after the fall of the
  Roman Empire.

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Political

• Feudalism

King
Chivalry- Code of Conduct (Brave, Loyal and true
to their word)
Little Movement
Lords
Owned Land
Knights
Promised Protection
Peasants
Worked the land and served the Lords
Serfs
Worked the land
Difference between Serfs and Peasants Serfs were
bound to the Lords land
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EconomicManorialism

• Manors were self-sufficient Serfs and Peasants
  worked land and Lords provided the use of land an
  protection and they grew what they needed.

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Social

• Church
• The Pope would excommunicate (exclude) rulers who
  threatened Papal power.

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The Crusades

• Reasons for Crusades
• Pope believed it would increase his power
• People believed that their sins would be
  forgotten
• Nobles hoped to gain wealth
• Chance to travel
• Serfs could escape feudal oppression

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The Crusades

• Effects
• Increase Trade
• Popes Power Increased
• People learned about other cultures
• Europeans became interested in traveling
• People of different religions grow to hate each
  other

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Japan

• Geography
• Mountainous
• Earthquakes
• Made of many different islands
• Effects
• Difficult to farm
• Use the seas as a food source and transportation
• Grown respect for nature

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• Cultural Diffusion influenced by Korea and/or
  China
• Spread of Buddhism and Confucianism
• Influence on writing

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Feudalism

• Had all of the power

Distributed land to lords
Promised loyalty to Daimyo
Peasants Made weapons for Samurai Merchants
Overtime, they gained more influence
Why were merchants below peasants? Their money
was made because of other peoples work
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• Tokugawa Shogunate
• Isolated Japan from the outside world
• Why did Japan open up and industrialize?