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Survey of European History

Major Topic Ideas

• Middle Ages

• Renaissance

• Reformation

• Enlightenment

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sections. Please give yourself room

to write about each of the topics. (1 page in length)

Middle Ages1066-1485

Feudalism

Black Knight Monty Python

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKhEw7nD9C4

Manors

Life based around agriculture

Life expectancy for Peasants 35 years

What is the life expectancy of

individuals living in the United States?

Approximately 79 years

Age of Chivalry

Chivalry Means being Brave…. And Noble….

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgj3nZWtOfA

Church Power

Monarch Power

Superstition

Medieval Times

- Blessing the sneezer

- Witchcraft

- Luck of Horseshoes

- Right hand of an executed man – Power to heal

Today

- Bad luck to walk under ladder

- Bad luck to spill the salt

- Knock on Wood

What Popular Children’s Rhyme/Song is based on the

effects of the Bourbonic Plague?

CHALLENGE! WORTH 1 EXTRA CREDIT POINT!

Ring Around The Rosey

• Ring-a-round the rosie,

• A pocket full of posies,

• Ashes! Ashes!

• We all fall down.

Black Death / Bubonic Plague

• Poor Sanitation

• Fleas on Rats

• Killed 1/3 population of Europe

– Up to 25 million

What if the Black Death Happened Today?

• Contagion Trailer

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sYSyuuLk5g

Water Torture

The Rack

Chair of Torture

Rat Torture

Renaissance1300-1500

Italy - Birth Place

• Renaissance – Refers to Rebirth

– Revival of Art and Learning

• Humanism– Humanistic Traits

• Secular – Spiritual

Renaissance Man

Art

Art

Art

Leonardo da Vinci

Raphaello Sanzio

Donato di Niccola di Betto Barti ( Donatello)

Michelangelo Buonarroti

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One of the siege weapons used during the Middle Ages include the Ballista. The Ballista was an invaluable Medieval siege attack weapon. The Ballista design was similar to a giant crossbow and worked by using tension. The Ballista was designed to aim huge wooden, iron clad, darts or arrows which were powered by twisted skeins of rope, hair, or sinew - the ballista design was based on a huge dart-throwing machine.

Printing Press

Reformation1500-1600

Causes of Reformation

• Social

– Printing Press / Humanistic

• Political

– Monarchs Challenged for Power

• Economic

– Resentment of Taxes

• Religious

– Indulgences

Crash Course Reformation(with handout)

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o8oIELbNxE

95 Theses

Legacy of Reformation

• Christian Religion Expands

– Catholic

– Protestants

– Lutherans

– Calvins

Enlightenment1550-1789

Scientific Revolution

• Galileo Galilei– Heliocentric Theory

• Scientific Method – Problem

– Hypothesis

– Tested

– Analysis

Philosophers

• Thomas Hobbes– Social Contract

• John Locke– Natural Rights – Life, liberty, and property

• Francois Marie Arouet ( Voltaire)– Freedom of Expression– Freedom of Religion

Industrial Revolution

• Transformed Europe

• Human labor replaced by machines

• Capitalism created

Revolutions French Revolution

American Revolution