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Answer the question on your blue MC question worksheet

GOOD MORNING!

According the teachings of Confucius, the key to the successful organization of society is that 1. The ruler should be chosen democratically2. The evil in humans must be eliminated3. Ancestor worship should be discontinued 4. Individuals should know and do what is expected of them

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Take out your GRRR movement of people and goods

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CRUSADES: “HOLY WAR”When did this occur? 1095-1200

What were the causes of the Crusades? Muslims took control of Jerusalem, Pope called for Christian soldiers to take the city.

What were the effects of the Crusades?

• Power of the Pope declines

• Feudalism is weakened

• Trade between Middle East and Europe begins – this makes Italian trading cities wealthy

• Europe gets ideas and technology

SILK ROADWhat was the Silk Road? A series of trade routes which connected China and Rome

What kind of goods, ideas, and technology flowed along this route? Silk, porcelain, gold, spices, moveable type, gunpowder

MUSLIM INFLUENCE ON AFRICAWhen did this happen? Late 600s

How/why did Islam spread here? Originally, Muslims conquered North Africa – Islam spread into W. Africa and the Eastern coast through trade

What were the effects? The religion changed from animism to Islam, literacy increased (Arabic was read), kingdoms developed with larger, complex cities

BANTU MIGRATIONS 500-1500Who were the Bantu? Early African people who began to migrate throughout Africa

Why did they migrate? To find new farmland

How did they affect Africa? Their language spread throughout Africa, their knowledge of iron-smelting spread

Crusades Silk Road

Muslim influenceBantu

1. 1 – the earliest humans evolved in the Rift Valley in Africa and migrated outward

2. 4 – cultural diffusion

3. 1 – spread of Hellenic culture

4. 3 – contact with the Byzantine culture in the 10th century

5. 4 – developed extensive trade in gold, ivory, and salt

6. 3 – maintained a uniquely individual culture while borrowing much from other cultures

7. 2 – had not yet been introduced to Europe from the New World

8. 2 – an increased demand for goods from the Middle East and Asia

9. 4 – find land for farming and grazing

10. 4 (8 – typo) – Atlantic slave trade

11. 1 – trade increased between Europe and Asia

12. 3 – increase in trade

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GOOD MORNING!

WHAT HAPPENED TO EUROPE AFTER THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE?

The Middle Ages/Medieval Period … Otherwise known as the

Dark Ages

EUROPE DURING THE MIDDLE AGES

Arrival of Germanic groups and collapse of Rome led to

• Trade declined – travel was unsafe• Cities less important

• People moved to the countryside

• Education declined

• Europe no longer had a unified language

• 400-600 period of turmoil and chaos as Germanic Kingdoms fought for power

It’s so dark!

THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

PEOPLE TURNED TO RELIGION!

• Provided a sense of order

• Monasteries served as libraries preserving the writings of the ancient world

• Monastery = religious community of monks who devote themselves to a life of prayer and worship

• 300 years after the fall of Rome, he reunites much of Western Europe

• Pope Leo III crowned him Holy Roman Emperor

• Sponsored revival of learning

CHARLEMAGNE

BUT - After his death, his empire broke into pieces

HRE = Combined the power of the Church and

the heritage of the old Roman Empire with a new

line of rulers

THE DARK AGES• Answer the questions as we watch the video on the Dark Ages

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• What was one reason why this period is considered a Dark Age?

• What is one source of “light” for people during in this period?