1. BELLWORK  Quickly discuss: What are the positive and negatives of societal changes (changes in society)?  Food Drive items?!

2. CHANGES IN MEDIEVAL SOCIETY THE END OF THE MIDDLE AGES

3. CHANGES IN FOOD PRODUCTION  Switch to horsepower, horses are now the beasts of burden for:  Plowing  Pulling Fields  Expanding Farming  3 Field System  Two out of three fields are used, one field lays fallow

4. CHANGES IN BUSINESS  Guilds were created to provide workers within the same industry (blacksmith, welding, farming, etc.) to improve working conditions and to share technology with each other

5. COMMERCIAL REVOLUTION Increased Trade. Merchants’ wealth and power increased. More cash, banking, and lending services available. More workers needed. Merchants’ taxes increase the king’s power and wealth. More money available for building businesses. Serfs moved to town; workers paid for labor.

6. CHANGES IN URBAN LIFE  Population BOOMED  Busy cities, very crowded and FILTHY

7. CHANGES IN LEARNING  Crusade reconnected Europe with the Middle East and Asia  Philosophy, math, science, astronomy, language, law all re- emerged, setting the stage for one of the greatest periods in Western Civilization.

8. HONORS STUDY GUIDE  5 Questions are Document Based Questions  All essential vocabulary  2 factors in the Fall of Rome  2 contributions from the Byzantine Empire  1similarity and difference between European and Japanese Feudalism  1 positive and negative outcome for each of the following: Crusades, Silk Road, Plague