1. Political and Social Change
18.4
Chapter 18
Section 4

2. Magna Carta 1215- nobles forced the king to respect their rights
Document listed rights the king could not ignore
Latin for “Great Charter”
Constitutional Monarchy

3. Effects of Magna Carta habeas corpus EVERYONE had to obey the law
people could not be put in jail without a reason.
Had to be charged with a crime and convicted by jury
EVERYONE had to obey the law
Even the king

4. Changes After Magna Carta
Council of nobles created to advise the king
Parliament
Law-making body that governs England today
Opened to knights and town leaders
Kings could do little without Parliament’s support.
Judicial System
Late 1600’s courts free from king’s control

5. Hundred Years War 1328- French king died
2 men claimed the throne [France, Britain]
Lasted over 100 years [ ]
Joan of Arc
French teenage peasant
Rallied the French
Was captured and killed by the British
1453- French drove out English

6. Results of the War England France King lost power
Parliaments power grew
France
King’s power grew
Bond with nobles

7. The Black Death

8. Ring-a-round a rosie,
A pocket full of posies,
Ashes! Ashes!
We all fall down.

9. The Black Death 1347- 1352: Deadly plague swept through Europe
Came from Asia to ports on the Mediterranean
Carried by rats; passed to humans by fleas
Killed 1/3 of Europe’s population
Estimates of about 25 million people

10. Sweeping Changes No more manor system
Nobody to work in the fields
Peasants and serfs could demand wages
Earned money; left for cities

11. “Ring-a-round a rosie”
A rosy rash was a symptom of the plague.

12. A pocket full of posies
Herbs were carried as protection and to ward off the smell of the disease

13. Cremation of the bodies, the burning of victims' houses
Ashes! Ashes!
Cremation of the bodies, the burning of victims' houses

14. We all fall down
Everybody Dies