A PowerPoint Debate

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A PowerPoint Debate
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How will we Proceed with The Middle Ages?

• Group Teamwork presentation. A PowerPoint debate
  Opposite sides will be taken on an issue.
• Essay.

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What Advances the Human Condition across Time
Geography?
Arts Literature
Creative thought
Science technology
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The Big Idea to be learned

• A civilizations pursuit of happiness is often a
  struggle between government and an ideology.

Essential Question 1) Do the two institutions,
Church and State, separately or collectively
advance civilization?
SEPARATE OR AGGREGATE
across time and geography
Science technology
Arts Literature
Creative thought
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One Institution Domination - How did or would
Civilization Fleshed Out ?
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Middle Age Growth Toward Success
Renaissance Re-Birth
Rome
Fall of Rome
Middle Ages
Success
Dark Ages
Time
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Aggregate Success
Separate
Separate
Not aggregate
CHURCH
STATE
50
50
CHURCH
STATE
40
60
CHURCH
STATE
60
40
The sum total is the same yet the proportions of
influence exerted by each can change. Two
Institutions as Major Change Agents
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Putting the Big Ideas Together
Influence of Both Institutions
The Social Contract as defined by the 5
Institutions
Why and to What degree is the Human Condition
Advancing or Degrading?
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Basic Concepts
Who had the Authority to cause change? Church or
State
Did the Human Condition Advance?
What Happened? Facts/Data
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Soup to Nuts The Multidimensional View
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What are We After?
At the end of the High Middle Ages what aggregate
proportion should exist to advance the condition
of humanity?
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American Founding Fathers

• People should be free to chose religion.
• Government should not rule religion

Did their Wisdom come from a Historic
Perspective?
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CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES

• First Amendment
• shall make no law respecting an establishment
  of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise
  thereof

Does the U.S. Constitution prohibit against
behaviors that violate the separation of church
and state?
NO
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Where is Separation mentioned in the United
States Constitution?
A PHILOSOPHY THAT COULD CHANGE good or bad?
It does not - The fact is the government has
never passed a law demanding a "separation of
church and state."

• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_church_
  and_state

What is Best SEPARATE OR AGGREGATE ?
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Concern 1The Battle for Neutrality

• Let the church be the church.
• Let the government be the government.

What Advances the Human Condition across Time
Geography
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The Social Contract

• What is the social contract?
• Track the changes over time
• What two institutions are managing the evolving
  social contract?
• Is one of the managing institutions more
  responsible for improving the human condition?
• Does the responsibility of improving the human
  condition shift to another institution over time?

The struggle for position The purpose of
church of and state.
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Overlapping Centralized Authority
POPE
Protection
Survival on the Manor Economic Social
Integration of Church
Time is not Static -Impact of revived trade on
authority creation of Bourgeoisie. Influence of
authority begins to shift
Authority
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What is Best SEPARATE OR AGGREGATE ?
What Advances the Human Condition across Time
Geography
Arts Literature
Creative thought
Science technology
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A Shifting of Authority
KING-DOM
POPE
Creative Thought
Heretic Inquisition
Spiritual
Impact of revived trade on authority creation
of Bourgeoisie. Influence of authority begins to
shift
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The historic story/concerns beginThe Battle for
Power Advancement Begins
Church
Government

• Simony
• Lay Investiture
• Command troops on churchs behalf.

• Crowning of Kings
• Moral Gods law the Interdict
• (battle of Gregory VII Henry IV)
• Command Troops
• Inspire war - Crusades

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The Control of Power
Church
Government

• Heresy Rules
• Inquisition
• Centralized authority

• Protection
• Church (sectarian) law vs. Government (secular)
  law
• Centralized authority

How can two institutions operating under a
central authority structure coordinate
advancements?
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What is Best SEPARATE OR AGGREGATE ?
What Advances the Human Condition across Time
Geography
Arts Literature
Creative thought
Science technology
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Essential QuestionDo the two institutions,
Church and State, separately or collectively
advance civilization?

• Group 1 -Historic Uniting and benefits.
• With a focus on aggregate advancement.
• Conclusion can be made to not separate church
  State.
• Group 2. Historic Uniting and detriments.
• With a focus on aggregate and limiting religious
  influence.
• Conclusion can be made to separate church State

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Group Requirements

• PowerPoint Presentation
• Each member of the group must present one or more
  slides

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Individual Requirements

• Essay Do the two institutions, Church and
  State, separately or collectively advance
  civilization?

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Time Frame

• PowerPoint Research - up to 1300s
• Essays can include some contemporary discussion.

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Procedure

• Study beginning PowerPoint slides
• Look at chapter 8 9 to find define governments
  success in meeting the needs of the people.
• Look at the same chapters to see what role
  religion played in meeting the needs of the
  people.
• Essay Answer the question Do the two
  institutions, Church and State, separately or
  collectively advance civilization up to the
  1300s?

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Procedure cont.

• To make your point determine how many historic
  events you can use from the slides in this
  presentation and from chapters (1-10).
• Divide those events among the group members and
  have one or two students develop the needed
  slides.
• Integrate all slide into one fluid PowerPoint
  Presentation.
• Rehearse and provide handouts of the presentation
  to the class.

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ESSAY

• Takes notes during the presentations to
  understand both points of view.
• Answer the question Do the two institutions,
  Church and State, separately or collectively
  advance civilization up to the 1300s?
• Historic Uniting and benefits.
• Historic Uniting and detriments

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GRADING

• PowerPoint
• Ability to demonstrate (presentation continuity,
  validity of integrated issues, cause and effect)
  an understanding of the issues.75
• The incorporation of all relevant facts as
  presented in the chapters, teachers
  presentation. 25
• Essay
• No. 1 also includes opposing points of view.
• No. 2 as above.

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Bibliography

• Krieger,(1992), World History Perspectives of the
  Past, p 22-244.
• Murray, Charles,(2003) Human Accomplishment.

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Mueller v. Allen463 U.S. 388,103 S. Ct. 3062

• Tax deductions benefiting parents of Parochial
  school children do not violate the establishment
  clause.
• The deduction is limited to actual expenses
  incurred for the tuition, textbooks and
  transportation of dependents attending elementary
  or secondary schools.

Actual case
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Centralized Authority

• Pope
• Cardinals
• Bishops
• Monsignors
• Priest

• King
• Royal Chief Vassals
• Vassals
• Knights
• Serfs

Information
Information
Decisions
Decisions
Decentralizes at lower levels