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Friday March 8 2013. Drill : Why did the Roman Empire fall? List 3 reasons . HW : Notebook Organization Never Ends. Obj : analyze life during the Early Middle Ages . political stability.
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Friday March 8 2013 • Drill: Why did the Roman Empire fall? List 3 reasons. • HW: Notebook Organization Never Ends. • Obj: analyze life during the Early Middle Ages
political stability • government that operates in an orderly, predictable manner which allows people to focus on improving their lives
"The Germanic tribes flooded into Roman territory as the Empire collapsed.'' • "Royal governments were no longer able to provide protection.” • "The works of giants molders away. Its roofs are breaking and falling; its towers crumble in ruin. Plundered those walls grated doors-the walls white with frost. Its battered ramparts are shown way and ruined, all undermined by eating age. " • "People built castles for protection. They were dark, damp, and drafty. Rodents and mice were constant problems, yet castles remained the best form of protection in a world of disorder.“
5. "In wave after wave invaders claimed part of theempire, they ravaged towns and cut off trade routes, even reading and writing were in danger because many of the attacking groups could not do either." • 6. "Vikings plundered towns and murdered the people in them.” • 7 In the villages and the country house, in the fields and in the countryside, on every road- death, sorrow, slaughter, fires, and crying. All Gaul (France) smoked in one great funeral pyre." • 8 "No one, not even rulers with armies, felt safe from Viking attack."
Did life in Europe during the Early Middle Ages reflect a time of political stability or instability? Why? • What conditions during the Early Middle Ages would have to change to create political stability in Europe?
“The most serene and most Christian emperor Charles, did choose from among his nobles the most prudent and the wisest men archbishops as well as other bishops, and venerable abbots, and pious laymen and did send them over his whole kingdom; and did grant through them, by means of all the following provisions, that men should live according to law and right.” • “That judges shall judge justly, according to the written law and not according to their own judgment.” • How was Charlemagne’s government was similar to the government of the United States?
Exit Ticket • How does Charlemagne connect to the Themes of World Cultures: • Cultures struggle with tradition and change. • Cultures gain, use, and lose power over time.