history
key concepts
medieval life
crime and punishment :
cause and effect-
empathy
Evidence
significance
perspective-
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point of view- the position from which people see and understand events going on in the world around them.
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continuity and change
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Contestability
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Empathy is the ability to ‘walk in someone else’s shoes’- to be aware of, and sensitive to, their feelings, thoughts and experiences.
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Cause and effect aim to identify the reasons why events and have occurred at the resulting consequences form it.
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Defintion
Relates to explanations or interpretations of past events that are open to debate.
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Relates to the importance assigned to aspects of the past, such as events, discoveries, people and historical sites.
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entertainment
tournament
food
hygiene
living conditions
fashion
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Everyone depending on where they were on the hierarchy wore different clothes.
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hygiene wasn't very good back then and the understanding of it was very limited
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the food was based off of your rank in the hierarchy if you were a king would get a feast if you were a pheasant you would pick up scraps on the road
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entertainment keeps people happy and occupied
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part of keeping people occupied and entertained
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was pretty poor for most people unless you lived in a castle and worked for the king
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trail by ordeal
trail by combat
torture devices
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Infliction of severe physical pain as a means of punishment or coercion
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Where there wasn’t enough evidence to prove someone's innocence, a trial in the eyes of god was used.
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• Another trial commonly used for the members of the upper classes was trail by combat, where the accused fought the accuser. Sometimes a champion (a strong knight) would fight on behalf of a weaker party. The winning side was innocent- god believed to ensure this as he would punish the guilty.
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feudalism
ranks
kings
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The kings were in charge of the land and the amount of money given to people
pheasants and servants
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peasants and serfs were the poorest people in the medieval era
churches officials
definition the church officials (priests) were in charge of the churches and in charge of most of the religious people
knights
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A mounted soldier serving under a feudal superior
nobles
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nobles were the "lord" to the peasants and serfs
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• Feudalism was a way of organizing a society through a hierarchy
• A person could almost never change their social position
o If a person was born a peasant, that person would die a peasant.
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• Historians recognize that over time some things change and stay the same, while others change.
• Aspects of the past that have stayed the same over time are referred to as continuities.
• Aspects that do not stay the same are referred to as changes.
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• Primary sources -that were created at the time of the event. Might include bones, letters, art and tools
• Secondary- these are reconstructions of the past by people living a later time. Might include books, articles, models, documentary films.
• Evidence is the information gathered form historical resources.
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the black death
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Perspective
Significance
Message
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i. How does the source help us?
ii. What does the source tell us?
iii. What doesn’t the source tell us?
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the prices rose
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i. Who is the author?
ii. Is the author for or against?
iii. Explain
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the writer is against it
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i. Describe the source
ii. Explain the source
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prices were doubling
symptoms
spread
treatments
causes
short term impacts
long term impacts
the rats, fleas and poor living conditions helped the disease spread
Jews were thought to bring along the black plague because they weren't native there
The symptoms ranged from small buboes and a fever to apple sized buboes and the blackening of fingers and toes.
Rubbing onions, herbs or a chopped up snake (if available) on the boils or cutting up a pigeon and rubbing it over an infected body. Drinking vinegar, eating crushed minerals, arsenic, mercury or even ten-year-old treacle!
Depopulation.- dropped from 125 million to 90 million. 30 -40% f the population with higher rates of death in rural areas. 35 million people died in China.1/3 of the population died in the middle-east. 40 % of egypts population died.
feudalism was weakened because of the amount of people that were killed.