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Knowledge Base: History How did storytelling shape the ancient Year 7 and medieval worlds? c.2285 BCE to 1500 CE.
4. Timeline of the medieval world
4.1 The Silk Roads was a huge trading network. It started in the ancient period as the Persian Royal Road. In c. 1000 CE it went through Baghdad.
c. 150 BCE to c. 1450 CE
4.2 The city of Baghdad was a successful, busy trading city in the Muslim Abbasid Caliphate. It was also the centre of fashion, learning, and technology.
c. 1000 CE
4.3 William, Duke of Normandy, invaded England and built many castles to complete his conquest. This is known as the Norman Conquest.
1066 to 1087 CE
4.4 The Crusades were a series of holy wars. Pope Urban II called for the first crusade in 1095. By 1099 Christians had retaken control of Jerusalem from Muslim rulers.
1095 to 1204 CE
4.5 King Henry I of England died, leaving his kingdom to his daughter, Matilda. Her cousin stole her kingdom.
1125 CE
4.6 Frederick Barbarossa, the Holy Roman Emperor, died while on crusade. His army gave up and went home to Germany.
1190 CE
4.7 Musa was Mansa (Emperor) of Mali. Musa was a resource-rich and faith-rich ruler, who went on the Hajj (Muslim pilgrimage).
1311 to 1337 CE
4.8 The Black Death (disease /
plague) arrived in Europe. The pandemic led to the deaths of up to 50% of England’s population.
1348 CE
4.9 The Renaissance period, focused on four Italian city- states. Art, maths, architecture, philosophy and sciences flourished.
14th century to 16th century CE
4.10 The medieval period ended, according to historians, when the Tudor family came to the English throne .
c. 1485 CE
5. Feudal system: a hierarchy (set of layers) of powers and duties
5.1 king
5.3 knights
5.4 peasants / serfs
5.5 homage / tribute
5.6 feudal system
6. Key Words
6.1 source
6.2 a history
6.3 scholarship
6.4 cause
6.5 consequence
6.6 bodies of knowledge
6.7 oral tradition
The most powerful individual in the kingdom. The king claims to be chosen by God to rule over the people.
The warrior class. Their duty was to stay ready for battle, to equip themselves with weapons, and to fight for the king. Farmers and labourers (workers). They were not free to move to another village, or to even marry without permission. When someone promises their loyalty to their ruler in gifts or valuable items. This shows they accept them as their ruler. A hierarchy (set of layers) that explains who had each level of power in medieval kingdoms across Europe and beyond.
Anything that gives a historian clues about the past. For example, some writing on a clay tablet, an old building, or anythin g else from the time.
A version of the past that tells the story of what happened. Historians create histories, but so do many different types of p eople in the past, and still today. A history made by someone who is trying to tell the most accurate (correct / truthful) version of the past that they can.
Why something happened. Also called factors or reasons. In history, there are often many causes for any event or change. Hist orians have to guess them. What something led to. Also called the result of an event or change. Not all consequences are bad. Some are deliberate, and o thers are accidental. Academic (universities), popular (TV, kids’ books, video games), public (statues, museums). These are different collections of knowledge about the past. When people tell stories to remember an event or person, and others retell those same stories.
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5.2
nobility
The nobles (nobility) were people who controlled large areas of land, granted to them by the king. This could be taken away if they were not loyal, or if they failed in their duties of collecting taxes and keeping law and order.