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M., D, and K.: There is one problem spot in this essay, which I've highlighted. But don't just erase it. Revise it. And remember, a patron is one who gives money to an artist or to an artistic group. Please fix this. Raise the 90 to a 100.

“My Story of the World: Renaissance & Reformation

The French word “renaitre” means “to be reborn” and that’s exactly what happened in the Renaissance. In the Renaissance, people had a rebirth of interest in the ancient Greece and Rome civilizations. During the Renaissance there was a rebirth of interest in humanism, which is the name for concern with human interests and human values and with the human experience. The Renaissance, which began around 1436, changed the way Europe thought.

The Renaissance began in the Italian city Florence because it was a city made rich because it was a center of shipping and banking. The people of Florence had excellent goods and a better chance of selling their goods.

The de Medici family was very wealthy banking family. The best known of the Medici gifted would be taken into the Medici household and be educated. Lorenzo de ’Medici young artists gave family was de’ LorenzoMedici. Any his support and protection and art too many scholars and artists. The term for such a supporter of the arts is a patron.

Kayla, Mikaila, and Katherine:

You earned a grade of 80 on your Middle Ages mini-chapter, as there are10 highlighted errors. Make the corrections to raise the grade.

Make the fixes. Then, PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT ALL THREE OF YOU UPLOAD IT TO EACH OF YOUR WIKIS. OK?

Please make sure that you have paragraph indents!

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Mr. Baskin Mikaila Medeiros, Kayla Toohey, and Katherine Maurno 11/9/11 Humanities 6C What are the middle Ages? I know! The middle ages are the period in time, European history between500 A.D and about the 1400’s. During the Middle Ages Charles Martel was Frankish war leader. Martel’s grandson was the greatest leader of the Franks. The land that Charmangle conquered was kingdoms in the southwest part of what is now France. The reason the people popped down Charmangled as Holy Empire because he arrived with his army in Rome. Feudalism is a system for organization and governing society based on land and service. It started in Europe around A.D 800. It worked to help control their lands. Feudalism helped maintain peace and order because it was developed to. Vassals were nobles who took an oath of loyalty to their lords. A lord is a king. The relationship between a lord and a vassal is that the lord or other powerful landowners would give to the vassals. A fief is a property given to a vassal in return for loyalty. An oath of featly is the promise the vassal makes to the lord. The Code of Chivalry is a code of conduct that knights believed they should follow. The knights were the nobles, but when they were in armor. The responsibilities of knights were to fight for the king. The role the serfs had was they lived in the villages around fortified house that belonged to the fiefs owner, or lord.{ What did they do?] A manor was a large self-sufficient estate granted to a lord and worked by serfs. The Norse (Viking) is any of the tribes that came from the Northern part of the area. What William Duke accomplished in 1066 is that he crossed the English Channel with about 5,000 knights. [What was the effect on language and government?} William defeated Harold, the Saxon king of England. King John was one of the kings of England. The group that forced King John to sign the Magna Carta was his vassals. The Magna Carta was an important document because it stated that the king could not violate the rights of free men and women by setting unfair taxes or making demands of goods or labor. The production or right it gave was legal rights enjoyed by English people and Americans. The primary religion in the middle Ages was Roman Catholicism and Christianity. Monks were priests that dedicated their life to god. Monks spend most of their time during the day in the prayer. They also farmed, studied, and made wines, medicines and craft goods. A monastery was communities where monks lived. The role that monks played in learning and in education was working at a monastery which was a learning center. Most monasteries had a scriptorium, or a room for making books. Since no printing presses existed, all books were carefully copied by hand. They also copied old Greek and Roman texts. They copied beautiful books called manuscripts. Nuns are women who shared religious life, and who chose to serve god by becoming nuns. A cathedral is a large Christian church. The crusades were series of wars to take the holy land. The Christian crusades went into battle with the Muslims to capture Jerusalem and nearby lands where Jesus had lived. A Reconquista was a long war fought by Christian armies to recapture Spain. Merchants and craftsman, during the Middle Ages were ones whose occupation was the buying and selling of goods. Job or trades they did was they were tailors, shoemakers, drapers, bakers, locksmiths, painters, joiners, stone makers, and masters. if I were an apprentice what typically would be expected of me is work for another designated amount of time in return for instruction in trade, art, and business. A journey crafts man is after you served for the apprentice. You also you around to towns to show them how good you are at what you do. The relationship between a journeyman and an apprentice was after a journeyman served for the apprentice since they were 8 to when they are 20, the journeyman goes to all these different towns to show the people in the towns how good he is at doing what he was taught to do by the apprentice. You can become a master craftsman by going to different towns and getting someone to hire you. A gild is to cover with or as if with a thin coating of gold. The Black Death of Bubonic plague was a sickness that that wiped out one third of the western European population during the next 130 years. This is what the Middle Ages are.