The Dark Ages Notes after Rome 410-1066 AD

History is a matter of perspective

12/13/17

● The dark ages lasted 600 years.

● After Rome collapsed \
● Called the dark ages are advanced of civilizations were reversed, the historical building are
lost
● A european government was replaced

● The dark ages is a metaphor

- Great Britain was once ruled by rome
● Britannia​ is when it was ruled by rome
● Romans brought civilization and law
● They also brought gods and goddesses
● Romans constructed towns
● Sparsely populated land
● Each new town had public baths, freshwater, public sanitation

● As time went by romans were attacks by barbarians (foreigners)

● Barbarians came from northern europe
● Envied rome so they attacks
● Came from poor tribes
● They tried to destroy rome
● Stone wall was constructed to keep barbarians out by britain emperor
● The wall served the purpose
● Big changes were taking place

● Christianity
● Rome was divided into east and west
● each ruled by different emperors
● Roman troops were withdrawn from britain
● 410 ad rome was plundered by …...
● Imperialism /= nationalism
● Roman troops started to withdraw
● The roman province on britannia ceased to exist

● The anglo saxon: the germanic tribes

● Angles and saxons and jutes and frisians occupied the land and became the anglo saxons
● They drove the britans to the west
● Built villages and settlements
● They angles occupied ……...
● Saxon occupied …….
 ● Jutes denmark
● Frisians
● They built hundreds of buildings
Anglo saxons are bringing their own ways
- Rome was completely changed

The Anglo Saxons

Stowa ​is located in central britain

- 30 miles from the north sea
● Self sufficient food, clothing, household goods
● Didn't have a high level; of trade
● They followed the norse gods
● Home to 3-4 family groups
● Typical 5th century homes
● Each family groups had 6 buildings like their own village
● A fire was always burning
● Thatched Roofs with straw
● They weaved
● The hall was the focal point of the village
● Families ate here
● Served many functions made, pots, shoes
● The main activity of the village was farming
○ Agrarian means they depend on farming
○ Sheep was made into wool and cloth
○ Wheat, barley
○ cows

● They made cloth

○ They loomed the threat and dyed
○

180 years after stowa

Mapping
- Franks had gained control
- Franks live in gull
- Now france
- Ostrogoths ( iberian peninsula) now portugal and spain
- Lombards
- Eastern roman empire
- Constantinople
- Elements
- 1. The culture of ancient rome
- 2. The germanic people and their institutions
- 3. The christian religion
They did not accept the christian religion
End of part 1

The dark ages part 2

- The king wanted subject s to share religion

- King oswalds
- Monastery places of worship, the monks
- Monks- spread literacy, wrote stuff, lived in monastery
- People chose religion over war
- penance - punishment
- Linden spar gospels
- Illuminated manuscript
- Only monks and priests knew how to read and write

VIkings
- Danelaw is now Denmark
- Normandy is now france
- 10th century
- The lord was usually a knight
- The tower of a tower was a keep
- Demen was for the lord
- The village was surrounded by a wall
- Serfs farmed the land, they got protection and a place to live
- Feudal contract
- Everything belonged to the lord
- smitheys = blacksmith worked
- Mill, or a grainery where grain turns into flour
- The brewhouse helps to sustain the village
- Fish, goat, doves (lord only) well, galos bad place, wool into cloth at weaving house,
- Death came about 35

The Black Death 1347-1351

● Killed half of the european pop.
● It would take 150 years for the population to grow back
● Kept appearing and disappearing 16th century ad
● Caused by bacteria
● Trembling, fever, chills
● The bubonic plague
● Pneumonic
● Death usually came early
● A vector is an organism that carries the disease without showing symptoms
● Rats infested many things because of lack of sanitation
● Some villages had rat catching
● The origins came from caffa close to russia and turkey
 ● The italian traders brought disease back to europe
● Infected sailors carried the disease to constantinople,
● It followed the sailors
● Killed half of the people in london
● 1350 it came to russia
● Art was used to learn
● religion - they thought they were sinners and that's why the black death came

● Flagellants means whip

● Penance punishment for sins
● Jewish people became targets and were accused by poisoning people
● 25 million people died 1351
● Huge numbers died from war
● Famine, disease and war lost ⅔ of pop.

● Results of depop.
● Agriculture suffered
● Serfs were not free
● The feudal relationship
● Slaves were paid cash
● Freeman left their villages
● Manufacturing now soon industrial

Reveiw
● Decline in feudalism
● Expansion of manufacturing
● Increase in the importance of towns and cities

Castles and cathedrals

- 1000- 1450 AD
- Farm lands
- When england was conquered by william
- Chepstow castle

Feudalism:

Castle life:
- You had everything
- 300 hundred full time servants
- There was no fire place
- They slept on the floor
- Oak beams