The Middle Ages - PowerPoint-Präsentation
The Norman Conquest
The Bayeux Tapestry - PowerPoint-Präsentation
The year 1066 is famous for English people ...
A south wind blew in the English Channel on 28 September 1066 ...
The English did not want a Norman king ...
The Duke of Normandy, known as William the Conqueror, was crowned King William I of England in London on Christmas Day, 1066 ...
William the Conqueror said that all the land in England belonged to him ...
William believed that the whole of England belonged to him ...
English also has many similarities with Romance languages, whose origin is Latin ...
The French influence - PowerPoint-Präsentation
William built three thousand ships, and filled them with mighty horses and brave men ...
The Norman Conquest - PowerPoint-Präsentation
We find out about the past from sources ...
Knights, Lords, and Kings
War took up a great deal of a king's time in the Middle Ages ...
Like most countries in the Middle Ages, England was a monarchy - it was ruled by a king ...
Before he became king of England in 1154, Henry II already ruled part of France ...
When Stephen was king, the great lords built castles everywhere, without the king's permission ...
Knights, Lords, and Kings - PowerPoint-Präsentation
A fact is something which is, or was, true ...
The Church
Most people in western Europe belonged to the Roman Catholic church in the Middle Ages ...
The head of the Catholic church was the Pope, who lived in Rome ...
In the Middle Ages many people went on pilgrimages ...
He has been a parish for more than 30 years, but he can neither sing the Mass properly, nor read the Bible ...
The Church - PowerPoint-Präsentation
A cause is a reason for something ...
Monks and Friars
Monks were men who gave their lives to God ...
In most places, the monastery's great stone church was the largest building for miles around ...
As time went by, some monks forgot their rules ...
The friars go after the rich folk. They have no time for the poor ...
Monks and Friars - PowerPoint-Präsentation
Not every word in the sources is true ...
The Crusades
Jesus was put to death in Jerusalem in Palestine ...
In 1187, Turks led by Saladin took Jerusalem and Acre from the Christians ...
Popes kept on urging kings, lords, and knights to go on Crusades ...
King Philip of France went home in 1191. But he let his knights remain at Acre ...
The Crusades - PowerPoint-Präsentation
Causes come before events. Causes are the reasons why the events happen ...
Students of history often try to work out the motives of the people in the past ...
From Council to Parliament
After Richard I returned to England, he was soon at war again ...
King John promised to speak to his 'council' before he charged taxes ...
England's kings were always short of money to pay for their wars ...
Before I make the people pay taxes, I will ask the advice of the lords in my council ...
From Council to Parliament - PowerPoint-Präsentation
Life on the Land
Nine out of ten people in the Middle Ages worked on the land ...
The lord of the manor and the peasants
The most important man in the village was the lord of the manor ...
The population of England rose steadily between 1066 and 1348 ...
The Black Death and the Peasants´ Revolt
The 'Black Death' - a kind of plague - reached the ports of southern England in 1348 ...
The peasants who survived the Black Death asked for higher wages ...
Peasants in the fifteenth century
The Peasants' Revolt was crushed in 1381 ...
The Hundred Years´ War
War was part of normal life for Norman kings and lords ...
England's longest war was against France ...
Joan of Arc and the end of the war
Charles VI of France had a son (another Charles) ...
Lancaster, York, and Tudor
Henry VI could not win the war in France ...
Edward IV died in 1483, aged only forty-one ...
Henry VII, the first Tudor king of England
Richard III reigned for only two years ...
Towns and Trade
Most people lived in villages in the Middle Ages and did not often leave home ...
After the Roman armies left Britain in the 5th century, invaders came from Scandinavia and northern Europe ...
The most important persons in a town were the merchants ...
English wool was the best in Europe ...
Technology in the Middle Ages
'Technology' means the right tools or equipment to do a job, and knowing how to use them ...
In 1086, there were more than 5,000 water-mills in England ...
Making woollen cloth was England's main industry in the Middle Ages ...
The iron industry and the printing press
In the Middle Ages, ploughs, knives, spades, and scythes all had iron blades ...
Daily Life
Peasant families lived in one-room or two-room shacks ...
The rich wore smart clothes made from fine wool, linen, velvet, silk, or fur ...
The poor were often hungry ...
Children were not forced by law to go to school, and most girls did not go at all ...
For most men and women, life was hard ...
Women in the Middle Ages
It was a man's world ...
Most girls married young - at fifteen or sixteen, or younger ...
Married women had a lot of children, but about half of them died young ...
Crime and Punishment
England had no police force in the Middle Ages ...
Trial by Ordeal and Trial by Combat
Trial by ordeal was the way of judging an accused person ...
You could be hanged for all sorts of crimes in the Middle Ages ...