ISN pg 78, High Middle Ages Preview: What was life like in Europe before the Crusades?

1. ISN pg 78, High Middle Ages • Preview: • What was life like in Europe before the Crusades? • How did the Crusades change: • People’s lives on the manor • Nobles & Knights • Kings • Merchants

2. Middle Ages The High Middle Ages after the Crusades

3. The Early Middle Ages (500-1000) • The time before the Crusades • Feudalism, Manorial System, Roman Catholic authority, little learning or trade The High Middle Ages (1100-1300) • The time after the Crusades • Increased trade, cities, & education • Decreased power of noble lords & increased power of kings & nations What was the Impact of the Crusades? The Crusades (1095-1204) • Christians vs. Muslims • Increased cultural diffusion: new ideas, new luxury goods, new ways of looking at the world Middle Ages 500 A.D. 1300 A.D. RomanMiddle Renaissance EmpireAges Begin

4. The Crusades

6. High Middle Ages—Trade • As trade increased, banking became a big industry because people needed loans to make investments in trade • Manufacturing of products began • Guilds (associations of skilled workers) were formed to protect the quality of their work & the prices they received

7. Medieval Guilds

8. High Middle Ages—Cities • Farmers learned the three-field system: leave one field “fallow” so it can regains its nutrients • Many peasant farmers were able to leave the hard life on the manor & escape into the new cities where they could train to become skilled craftsmen

9. 3-Field System Fallow field Harvested field Plow Planted field

10. After the Crusades, people wanted more luxury goods & began to trade Trade led to the growth of cities Medieval fairs brought iron & salt to the feudal manors; this was a very rare thing High Middle Ages—Crusades

11. High Middle Ages—Churches • The Catholic Church was the most important part of peoples’ lives in the Middle Ages • In the early Middle Ages, church architecture used the Romanesque style: • Heavy & squatty • Had few windows

12. Romanesque Architecture

13. High Middle Ages—Churches • But during the High Middle Ages, people wanted cathedrals with more height & light—led to Gothic cathedrals (a new style!!) • Flying Buttress—braces that supported outer pressure of cathedral; allowed cathedrals to be built much larger • Pointed Arches—helped emphasize height of cathedrals

16. WOW!! That’s off the hook!!

17. High Middle Ages—Universities • Cultural diffusion brought new interest in learning • Universities started popping up all over Western Europe • Members of middle class began learning how to read & write • Now that more European could read, interest grew about ideas of Greece & Rome (Classicism)

18. During the Middle Ages, only priests could read & write Greek ideas During the High Middle Ages, more people were educated Ideas about the Bible Roman ideas Chinese ideas Islamic ideas

19. Catholic Church Serfs Manors Cities Monarchs Spices Algebra Feudal Lords Violence Roman Empire Feudalism Muslims Crusades King Early Middle Ages vs. High Middle AgesUse the following word bank to complete the sentences provided: • Feudal Lords • Violence • Roman Empire • Feudalism • Muslims • Crusades • King