https://padlet.com/zmeyers/d391oojn6dvv en-us 2019-01-03 17:20:39 UTC 2019-01-08 16:45:31 UTC hello@padlet.com zmeyers https://padlet.com/zmeyers/d391oojn6dvv/wish/317278219 - In 813, Charlemagne crowned his son Louis the Pious (778-840), king of Aquitaine, as co-emperor. Louis became sole emperor when Charlemagne died in January 814, ending his reign of more than four decades. At the time of his death, his empire encompassed much of Western Europe. In the ensuing decades, his empire was divided up among his heirs, and by the late 800s, it had dissolved. ]]> 2019-01-03 17:25:22 UTC https://padlet.com/zmeyers/d391oojn6dvv/wish/317278219 zmeyers https://padlet.com/zmeyers/d391oojn6dvv/wish/317278745 - A political organization represented by small, local, independent leaders, distinguished classes, upper nobles grant things to lower nobles. Feudal society is a military hierarchy in which a ruler or lord offers mounted fighters a fief (medieval beneficium), a unit of land to control in exchange for a military service. The individual who accepted this land became a vassal, and the man who granted the land become known as his liege or his lord.
- Most Europeans were governed by a king who was bound by the obligations of Feudalism. Feudalism discouraged a unified government because individual lords would divide their lands into smaller and smaller sections to give to lesser rulers and knights. Feudalism also discouraged trade and economic growth. The land was worked by peasant farmers called serfs, who were tied to individual plots of land and forbidden to move or change occupations without the permission of their lord.]]> 2019-01-03 17:27:34 UTC https://padlet.com/zmeyers/d391oojn6dvv/wish/317278745 zmeyers https://padlet.com/zmeyers/d391oojn6dvv/wish/317278886 - The first of 4 crusades called for by Pope Urban ll to attempt to recapture the Holy land. The Crusader victory wins them Jerusalem.
- Won Jerusalem back and re-established the Christian-Jerusalem Kingdom. ]]> 2019-01-03 17:28:06 UTC https://padlet.com/zmeyers/d391oojn6dvv/wish/317278886 zmeyers https://padlet.com/zmeyers/d391oojn6dvv/wish/317278929 - Started in response to the fall of the country Edessa that was announced by Pope Eugene lll. Both European armies defeated by Seljuk Turks. It was a big failure for the crusaders and a great victory for the Muslims.
- It influenced the fall of Jerusalem and the rise of the 3rd crusade.]]> 2019-01-03 17:28:16 UTC https://padlet.com/zmeyers/d391oojn6dvv/wish/317278929 zmeyers https://padlet.com/zmeyers/d391oojn6dvv/wish/317279006 - An attempt by the leaders of the 3 most powerful Western Christian states to reconquer the holy land. They succeeded in capturing Ache and Jaffa but failed in recapturing Jerusalem.
- Inspired the 4th Crusade and finalized the treaty of Jaffa which granted Muslim control over Jerusalem ]]> 2019-01-03 17:28:35 UTC https://padlet.com/zmeyers/d391oojn6dvv/wish/317279006 zmeyers https://padlet.com/zmeyers/d391oojn6dvv/wish/317279041 - A latin Christian expedition called by Pope Innocent lll, intent was to recapture the Muslim-controlled city of Jerusalem, crusaders sacked Constantinople.
- Started the Great Schism and crippled the Byzantine Empire.]]> 2019-01-03 17:28:45 UTC https://padlet.com/zmeyers/d391oojn6dvv/wish/317279041 zmeyers https://padlet.com/zmeyers/d391oojn6dvv/wish/317279264 - War between England and France when the kings of england tried to claim the throne. Charles the lV of France died without a son so Edward lll of England believed he had the right to become the new king of France through his mother. 
- The end of the War marks the end of England trying to have physical dominance in Western Europe. May have caused a civil war in Europe called War of the roses. ]]> 2019-01-03 17:29:36 UTC https://padlet.com/zmeyers/d391oojn6dvv/wish/317279264 zmeyers https://padlet.com/zmeyers/d391oojn6dvv/wish/317356496 - Great Occidental Schism and Schism of 1378, was a split within the Catholic Church lasting from 1378 to 1417 in which two, since 1410 even three, men simultaneously claimed to be the true pope, having excommunicated one another.
- The conflict was finally resolved by a council was convened by a third Pisan pope, John XXIII, in 1414, which resulted in the excommunication of some of the claimants to the papacy]]> 2019-01-04 01:03:43 UTC https://padlet.com/zmeyers/d391oojn6dvv/wish/317356496 zmeyers https://padlet.com/zmeyers/d391oojn6dvv/wish/317356510 - Charlemagne became king due to his fathers death. In 768 he became King of the Franks and in 774 he became king of the Lombard's. He United much of Eastern and Western Europe. 
- He spent most of his reign engaged in warfare in order to accomplish his goals. As king he expanded the Frankish state called Carolingian Empire which made him seem fit to become Emperor. ]]> 2019-01-04 01:04:01 UTC https://padlet.com/zmeyers/d391oojn6dvv/wish/317356510 zmeyers https://padlet.com/zmeyers/d391oojn6dvv/wish/317356532 - Charlemagne founded the Holy Roman Empire, strengthened European economic and political life , and promoted the cultural revival known as the Carolingian Renaissance. 
- Charlemagne seemed fit as an emperor to the Pope who could no longer fend off his enemies in the city.  ]]> 2019-01-04 01:04:26 UTC https://padlet.com/zmeyers/d391oojn6dvv/wish/317356532 zmeyers https://padlet.com/zmeyers/d391oojn6dvv/wish/317356590 - A document that limited the power of the monarch and established human rights for everyone in England. It was a peace treaty for King John and his subjects. 
- Pivotal movement in establishment of human rights. ]]> 2019-01-04 01:05:14 UTC https://padlet.com/zmeyers/d391oojn6dvv/wish/317356590 zmeyers https://padlet.com/zmeyers/d391oojn6dvv/wish/317356624 - A mediaeval pandemic that swept through Asia and Europe. It reached Europe in the late 1340s, killing an estimated 25 million people. 
- Impacted the world and shaped societies across Europe and Asia at the time. It is a reminder to the world of potential or widespread and devastating infectious diseases. ]]> 2019-01-04 01:05:45 UTC https://padlet.com/zmeyers/d391oojn6dvv/wish/317356624 zmeyers https://padlet.com/zmeyers/d391oojn6dvv/wish/317356667 - The vikings attacked Europe because they were not Christian and Christian monasteries were easy targets for the vikings given the fact that the monks had no weapons and the buildings were filled with valuable treasures, like gold, jewels, and books
- This is important because eventually the Vikings began to settle in lands outside of Scandinavia. In the 9th century they settled portions of Great Britain, Scotland, Germany, and Iceland. In the 10th century they moved into northeastern Europe including Russia. They also settled along the coast of northern France, where they established Normandy, which means "northmen". 

]]> 2019-01-04 01:06:07 UTC https://padlet.com/zmeyers/d391oojn6dvv/wish/317356667 zmeyers https://padlet.com/zmeyers/d391oojn6dvv/wish/317356682 - The renaissance was a cultural movement that began in Italy and eventually spread throughout Europe. During the renaissance people experienced changes in art, learning, classical works, and many other things. 
- The renaissance was important because it laid the foundation for the age of exploration and eventual European global domination. ]]> 2019-01-04 01:06:20 UTC https://padlet.com/zmeyers/d391oojn6dvv/wish/317356682 zmeyers https://padlet.com/zmeyers/d391oojn6dvv/wish/317356714 - Ferdinand and Isabella chose Catholicism to unite Spain and in 1478 asked permission of the pope to begin the Spanish Inquisition to purify the people of Spain.
- Nevertheless, its power was very limited, and, arguably, it was important chiefly because it established a tradition of religious coercion in the late medieval Western church that was inherited by both Catholics and Protestants in the 16th century.]]> 2019-01-04 01:06:42 UTC https://padlet.com/zmeyers/d391oojn6dvv/wish/317356714