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AFTER THE ROMAN EMPIRE CRUMBLED, THERE WAS NO LEADERSHIP, PROTECTION, OR EDUCATION ANYWHERE, REALLY. IT WAS THE BEGINNING OF WHAT IS ALSO CALLED "THE DARK AGES".
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This link will take you anywhere you want to go, that is anywhere during the Middle Ages, approx. 500AD to 1500AD.
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A Lord's estate w/castle at the center, a church, mill, farm buldings, gardens/orchards/fields, serf's cottages (formed a village). It was a way to organize the agricultural lands.
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HE WAS WELL EDUCATED AND A CHRISTIAN WHO "PRACTICED WHAT HE PREACHED" BY HELPING OTHERS TO ALSO BE THESE THINGS. THE EMPIRE CRUMBLED AFTER HE LEFT.
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ENGLISH KINGS RULED JUSTLY UNTIL KING JOHN I, WHO AFTER LOST A BIG BATTLE, WAS OUSTED BY A CIVIL WAR.
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8 major military epeditions of Christians in W. Europe to win back Palestine from Muslims (Turks). The !st one produced the most significant results. Go to this link and leave your name, class hour, and an answer.
https://docs.google.com/a/forestcity.k12.ia.us/document/d/11Tca-zq1q9-rZ1OnmIWxp5vjWOwIHE4ff3xeCXQplC0/ -
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/medieval/government/magnacarta.htm
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A 4,000 mile long dangerous, hard to travel, major trade route(s) beginning in Chang'an, China and ending to the west in Dunhuang. Marco Polo was a famous traveler from Italy who went clear
across Asia, taking the Silk Road. He tells about a mongol warrior, Ghengis Khan, who fought to make the Silk Road safer and united the region. Watch the following video to learn more about Marco Polo.
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Bubonic plaque, a type of disease that spread rapidly by rats who carried, and their fleas, which would then bite humans. No one knew what was causing people to die and it was able to spread faster and farther by travelers taking the Silk Road. Use this link to watch how rapidly the Black Plague spread. http://wadsworth.cengage.com/history_d/templates/student_resources/0534600069_spielvogel/InteractiveMaps/swfs/map11_1.html
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMg3w6x2Ch4
(watch the above video) THE KINGDOM WAS NOW UNRULED AND VULNERABLE. AT FIRST, THEY STOLE PEOPLE'S GOODS (IN ENGLAND, FRANCE, RUSSIA, SPAIN,GERMANY, IRELAND, & ITALY). LATER, THEY SET UP TRADING ROUTES AND CENTERS. ANOTHER GROUP, THE NORMANS, SETTLED IN FRANCE, AND BECAME CHRISTIANS. -
WITHOUT STRONG CENTRAL GOVERNMENTS, MORE LOCALIZED SYSTEMS CAME ABOUT TO PROVIDE PROTECTION AND JUSTICE.
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