Course 4

Middle Ages

Early Middle Ages: 500 1000

Depopulation/deurbanisation/invasion/movement of peoples
High Middle Ages: 1000 1250
technological and agricultural innovations
Manorialism/feudalism/Crusades
Late Middle Ages: 1250 1500
calamities including famine, plague, and war
Feudalism
o a political, economic, and social system based on loyalty and
military service
o responsibilities of: lord of the manor, king, knights, peasants
o clothes
o heraldry
o life in the medieval towns
o Black Death
o Religion- inquisition
Crusades
aim; symbol; impact
Magna Carta
Books
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/195896/history-of-Europe/58233/UpperPaleolithic-developments
http://medievaleurope.mrdonn.org/nobility.html
http://medievaleurope.mrdonn.org/heraldry.html
http://medievaleurope.mrdonn.org/rise_of_towns.html
http://medievaleurope.mrdonn.org/monks.html
http://medievaleurope.mrdonn.org/effects_of_the_crusades.html

Course 4. Ancient Rome

The origin of the city's name

The Capitoline Wolf
The Rape of the Sabine Women

The Romans and their early government (Pater Familias, the

Senate, a king, etc.- responsabilities)

Abolishment of the regal form: Consuls, Dictator, Questores,

Tribuni Plebis.
Spartacus uprising
Technical achievements:
aqueduct system
invented the arch in constructions
water proof concrete
the Roman Coliseum (Colosseum)
Panthenon-The Oculus
http://historylink101.com/2/Rome/roman-sabine-women.htm
http://historylink101.com/2/Rome/roman-patricians.htm
http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_pennellhistoryofrome6.htm#VI
http://historylink101.com/2/Rome/roman-plebeians.htm
http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/socialculture/a/Ancient-Rome-From-TheEarliest-Times-Down-To-476-A-D.htm#XLVI
http://historylink101.com/2/Rome/roman-women.htm