The End of the Middle Ages 1200s - 1400s

1. DO NOW (5)
Which statement best described the role of the Roman Catholic Church in Western Europe
during the Middle Ages?
◦ A) The Church encouraged individuals to question authority.
◦ B) Church leaders were limited solely to spiritual activities.
◦ C) The Church gained influence as the world became more secular.
◦ D) The Church provided a sense of stability, unity, and order.
Short Answer (2-3 Sentences)
How did the Black Death affect medieval Europe?

2. The End of the Middle Ages (1200s-1400s)

3. Engage: I Didn’t Vote For The King
https://www.youtube.com/v/fxGqcCeV3qk

4. Objective
I can explain how the Great Schism and the Hundred Years war contributed to the end of
medieval Europe and describe changes in technology and life at the end of the Middle Ages.

5. Explore: History Short (10)
Get out your History Shorts: A Nation is Born and the Hundred Years War
Read the articles and answer the Multiple Choice

6. EUROPE 962 CE

7. So What Ends the Middle Ages?
We know the Church provides stability, unity, and order.
However the Church is becoming worldly and corrupt.
Natural events like the Plague weaken the Church’s power.
People begin to see national identities and look less at the Church as their power.
But it takes more than one event to end the Middle Ages.

8. EUROPE IN 1400 CE

9. End of the Middle Ages Create this
page in your
notebook
(80 Seconds)
(70 seconds a
slide)
The Hundred
Years War
(1337-1453)
The Great
Famine
(1313-1322)
End of
Feudalism
Impacts on
Europe
The Great
Schism
(1378-1417)

10. End of Feudalism The rise of guilds, towns, and education improves life.

11. End of Feudalism Kings build their own standing armies.

12. The Great Famine
(1313-1322)
Floods destroyed food, famine kills millions.
Church cannot stop famine.

13. The Great Schism
(1378-1417)
Papal Crisis between Avignon and Rome.
1378: TWO Popes.
1409: THREE Popes

15. Great Schism 1417: Papacy restored to ONE Pope, but his power is
greatly weakened.

16. The Hundred Years
War
(1337-1453)
England claims rule of France, huge war begins in
France.

17. The Hundred Years
War
(1337-1453)
Joan of Arc rallies the French, France retakes most of its
land.

19. Impacts on Europe Power shifts from Pope to King.
People focus on nation rather than religion.

20. Impacts on Europe Gunpowder, compass, and the cannon during Hundred
Years War.

23. Impacts on Europe New sources of knowledge, wealth, and power reshape
Europe; people question King and Pope.

24. SKI (30)
S- What do you SEE?–all the important things you see (words, title, images…)
K –What do you KNOW?—branch off and write everything you can remember about what you
see.
I – what can you INFER— draw arrows from what you know and see to an answer choice
(Multiple Choice)
This is good for multiple choice.

25. SEE- 4 THINGS
Know- 3 THINGS
INFER- 3 THINGS
What does this image say about the
end of the Middle Ages?

26. SEE- 4 THINGS
Know- 3 THINGS
INFER- 3 THINGS
What does this image say
about warfare in the
Middle Ages?
What improvements will
happen in the future?

27. SEE- 4 THINGS
Know- 3 THINGS
INFER- 3 THINGS
What does this image
say about warfare
and the end of
the Middle Ages?
How may these
armies have gotten
their equipment?

31. Interactive Europe Map
http://www.worldology.com/Europe/dark_ages_lg.htm

32. Option 1 Option 2 Option 3 Option 4
Role Soldier Farmer Craftsman Woman
Audience Family Farmers Clients Women
Format Letter Speech Advertisement Speech
Topic The year is 1453 and after traveling Europe for several years you have returned
home to use what you have learned to improve your life and your community’s life.
Your home is years behind other places in Europe. What has changed around them
that will allow them to improve their life? What have you learned that has changed
your life? What can be made, sold, changed, or done to improve the life of your
home?
Strong View Inform Persuade Persuade Inform
R.A.F.T.S (20- 16 Alone, 4 Together)

33. Without using your notes describe events that lead to the end of the Middle Ages.