The document provides instructions for a web quest on various topics relating to life in the Middle Ages, directing the reader to multiple websites to research and answer questions. Specifically, it asks questions about medieval beliefs on disease transmission, medical treatments, clothing styles for different social classes, the roles and treatment of women, the lives and duties of knights, the development of armor, codes of chivalry, siege weapons used to attack castles, and definitions of architectural features found in medieval castles. The reader is to complete the web quest by researching the provided sites and thoroughly answering all parts of the multiple choice and descriptive questions in a Google Doc.

1. Directions: Answer the questions below using the provided sites. A Web Quest requires that
you read! Make sure that your answers are clear and answer all parts of the questions
thoroughly!
This must be completed in Google docs.
Health
1) http://www.learner.org/interactives/middleages/health.html
How did people believe diseases were spread?
What are the four (4) humors, or body fluids that had to be in balance?
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2) http://www.learner.org/interactives/middleages/morhealt.html
Who was medical treatment available for?
Who besides doctors gave medical treatments?
Describe some of the remedies used in the Middle Ages:
What was the most common form of surgery? Why?
Clothing
3) http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/medieval/clothing/index.htm
Describe what you would be wearing if you were alive in the Middle Ages if you were…
a man -
a monk -
a nobleman -
a woman -

2. Women
4) http://www.medievality.com/medieval-women.html
How and why were women treated differently than men in the Middle Ages?
What were some of the jobs women did during the Middle Ages?
What type of violence did some women face during this period? What caused this to happen?
Life of Knights
5) http://www.knightsandarmor.com/history.htm
Who did lords look to for protection after the fall of the Roman Empire (post-Rome Western Europe)?
What did these men receive as a result of protecting the lords?
6) http://www.knightsandarmor.com/armor.htm
What was early armor like (describe it)?
What was the armor of the late Middle Ages like (describe it)?
What weapon made the armor of knights ineffective? Why?

3. 7) http://www.knightsandarmor.com/chivalry.htm
Chivalry was the code of conduct knights followed. What things did the code of chivalry state?
Was the chivalry code always followed? How can you tell?
Castles
8) http://www.medievality.com/assaulting-castle.html
Castles were the centers of trade, culture and warfare during the Middle Ages. Describe how the
following weapons worked (or how they were used). Which weapon would YOU choose to attack a
castle?
The Battering Ram:
Siege Tower:
Trebuchet:
Tunnels:

4. 9) http://www.castlewales.com/casterms.html
Click on the different castle terms (look at the pictures associated with these terms) and describe the
meaning of the terms:
The Keep:
Wall Walk:
Parapet:
Concentric:
Bailey:
Arrow Loop: