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Do You Know About the Middle Ages?

Do You Know About the Middle Ages?. The Middle Ages was a very interesting time period with castles, knights, and kings and queens! Boy do I wonder what it was like to live in the Middle Ages!. Ava Hancock 5H. What About the People ?.

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Do You Know About the Middle Ages?

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  1. Do You Know About the Middle Ages? The Middle Ages was a very interesting time period with castles, knights, and kings and queens! Boy do I wonder what it was like to live in the Middle Ages! Ava Hancock 5H

  2. What About the People? The people of The Middle Ages were much different from the people today. They dressed differently, acted differently, even maybe talked differently! First, there was the King and Queen; sort of like the presidents of the land. The Queen was probably a woman in a big dress who drank tea while watching her beloved husband fight in wars. They could overpower you and rule you; make you lose your job and even your home! Then we have the lords and barons. Lords were noblemen who ruled and/or owned an estate. The barons were chief noblemen, so I guess you could think of them as the assistant of the lords. Oh, wait! The Kings and Queens of the Middle Ages did want to have a little bit of fun! That’s why they had jesters! Jesters are fools who performed for people in the castle including the King and Queen. They would juggle, tell jokes, and perform tricks that seemed amusing. When we move down to the lower portion of the people in the Middle Ages we have serfs, (farmers who were much like villeins, but weren’t free.) noblewomen, ( women who were born into very powerful families, but had very little power themselves.) craftsmen, ( blacksmiths who worked in villages) guildsmen, (assistants of the craftsman) falconers, ( trained and cared for the prey used in hunting) alchemists, ( people interested in discovering the natural laws of the natural universe and using them to benefit people) heralds, (messengers) villeins, (people who lived and worked on the manors) merchants, ( traders) and troubadours. ( poets and musicians who traveled through the warmer parts of southern Europe performing for lords. There were also a lot of Catholics in this time period including, priests, monks, popes, bishops, nuns, and crusaders.

  3. The Feudal System Have you ever wondered what the feudal system is? Maybe you have heard these two words in history class before. The feudal system was the system of government in the Middle Ages. I know many people would say the shape to describe this system would be a pyramid, but I think of it as a chain of government in the Middle Ages. At the top of this “chain” is the King, at the near bottom were knights, and in the middle of the “chain” were lords, other nobles, along with counts and officials. AT the very bottom of this “chain” or pyramid were the peasants and serfs. I personally think that in this system, people other than the King should’ve had more freedom, but I guess people in the Middle Ages thought differently than we do now. In conclusion, the feudal system was the way that the upper classes maintained their power over the lower classes.

  4. Castles When you hear this word you may think princess or king or queen, but that’s not all there is to it! There were many different parts to a castle and the reason why was because there would always be people ready to attack a different village or town so gates and doors were a must. The portcullis was the main gate and could be raised or lowered to let people in and out. There was also a moat, a river of water surrounding the outer castle walls called the outer bailey. Murder holes and arrow loops were circular slits and skinny slit dug in to the towers for shoot people with arrows and dropping hot coals or large stones. The keep was family dinners, banquets, games, dancing, and other forms of entertainment. The drawbridge was a bridge that could be lifted or lowered kind of like the portcullis. The parapets were very low walls that circled around the top edge of either a castle wall or a tower. Corbels were big stone projections in the walls that kind of acted as brackets used to support the parapets. Machicolations were holes used to drop boiling water, hot stones, and boiling oil. The postern gate was the back gate of the castle that was supposed to be secret, but in the end everybody in the land probably knew about it. The gatehouse was the living quarters over the main gate of the castle. Lastly, the rocky ledges were what the castle was built on.

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