Maria Luz Palma April 21st‚ 2015 Mannion period 7 DBQ The Crusades took place in the Middle East between 1095 and 1291. They were used to gain a leg up on trading‚ have more land to show hegemony‚ and to please the gods. Based upon the documents‚ the Crusades between 1095 and 1291 were caused primarily by religious devotion rather than by the desire for economic and political gain. They were different wars which afterward lead to cultural diffusion and urbanization. The
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It is the early 11th century and the Holy Land is controlled by the Seljuk Turks. The Holy Land and Jerusalem is in the middle of three continents as shown in the map below. The Turks not only attacked Christian areas in the Byzantine Empire‚ but they also attacked Christian pilgrims. Unable to defend his land by himself‚ Byzantine Emperor Alexius I Comnenus has asked Pope Urban II for help. Post Number 2: As a result to Pope Urban’s decision to help the Byzantine Empire by taking back the Holy
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life. However they were given a dowry‚ education‚ and training. In the first century a law was passed that allowed them to be free from a male guardian as long has she had given birth to three children. The role of woman then deteriorated in the middle ages during the classical
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long life until the age of 82‚ where she out-lived her siblings‚ her husbands‚ almost all of her children‚ most of the son/daughter-in-laws‚ and some of her grandchildren. Not only did she successfully ruled as Queen three times‚ but Eleanor of Aquitaine brought culture to France and England‚ traveled‚ influenced literature‚ and had successful children‚ some who became Kings and Queens. She is considered to be the most powerful woman and the most successful queen of Middle Age Europe. Biography
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The Chainmail armor was the earliest form of metal armor worn by the average soldier during the Middle Ages. The armor was made from small metal rings joined together to form a closely linked flexible and protective mesh. The word ’Chainmail’ was an English combination of two words‚ ’Chain’ meaning a series of metal rings and ’mail’ from the French word "maille" meaning mesh of a net. The Maille armor primarily consisted of a two-part composite defense. the mail itself and the padding worn underneath
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1. The European aristocrats of the Middle Ages were the landowning nobility‚ whose members were privileged by fiefs from the king in return for services in war. They owned all the land and everyone else had to rent from them. 2. Family Economy is the basic structure of production and consumption in pre-industrial europe.Family economy constrained women‚ because the were confined to the hose‚ maintaing the household and raising children. 3. The agricultural revolution was caused by the need to feed
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and educational activities. The Church was the head influencer and even secular rulers were subject to the Churches influence. Knowing that the Church was the main influencer‚ when Drama finally made its return it was mostly religious. During the Middle Ages‚ the Church‚ the same group responsible for the decline of the art of drama‚ began embrace and utilize theatre. They began to present religious drama in sanctuaries and cathedrals. However‚ why was the Church now embracing drama and serving as an
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common concept‚ however‚ comes around when the Western world describes it as acts against God and therefore evil‚ associating it with the Devil and Devil worshipping. Witchcraft is feared and resorted to when events are unexplainable. In the Late Middle Ages‚ three main texts arose that laid a foundation for the extermination of witches‚ known as the Witchcraft Documents. This fear instilled in the documents started a flurry of witch hunts and unreasonable trials to eradicate witches and to keep the
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From pages of 120-133 in Magic in the Middle Ages‚ author Richard Kieckhefer discusses the practice of astrology in medieval Europe. He explains how astrology is a mix of Arabic science and Aristotelian cosmology‚ and is occult in its nature because it focuses on “those which cannot be ascribed to the physical makeup” (Kieckhefer‚ 131) of themselves. I find that the most interesting point in this reading is when Kieckhefer explains how the zodiac is rooted in astronomy‚ yet astrologers used the zodiac
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The Middle Ages were a time where Europe was shrouded in famine‚ wars‚ and plagues. One of the most well-known plagues was the Black Plague‚ which was a terrible disease that eliminated one-third of Europe’s population. After this plague‚ Europe began to change for the better. The Black Death caused a major shift in Europe‚ which led peasants to have social mobility which led to the Renaissance. Before the Renaissance though‚ Europeans had to endure the effects of the widely feared plague. What caused
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