1066: A Year in Perspective by Bryan Doherty and Matt Henderson

Knights of the Round Table story

How Tristram overcame the battle

Elias wanted to do battle with King Mark and sent a messenger to tell him

King Mark agreed and put his best knight, a guy named Sir Tristram, in charge of the battle

So this Sir Tristram prepares all the men for battle and goes out to meet Elias' men

They all fought hard but Sir Tristram was really going at it. He was killing people on the right on the left just slaying knight after knight. He even comes to King Mark's rescue when he is about to be over taken

After the battle Elias was so impressed with this Sir Tristan that he sends for a knight to fight him man on man to try and get rid of them

He sends another messenger to King Mark to tell him he wants the two to fight an Mark says yes because he knows Tristram will dominate all over again

Class Blog Submission - Augustine of Hippo

Augustine of Hippo was a converted Christian, that lived in the 300s CE. He is famous for being the bishop of the city of Hippo in Africa, and his works that have survived and are still used today. His works, such as "Confessions", have left a large mark on the way that people view and follow modern Christianity.

Augustine wasn't always, a devout Christian priest. As a young man he was involved in several different religious groups that didn't necessarily follow the strict teachings of the Christian Church. By being involved in these groups he gained knowledge of different beliefs and ways of looking at things that were taught by the religions of the world. Augustine spent most of his life looking for the meaning of good and evil. When he did rejoin the church and became a priest he brought his knowledge with him that eventually changed the way that Christians looked at their beliefs.

"Augustine of Hippo (354-430)." EarlyChurch.org.uk: An Internet Resource for the Study of the Early Centuries of Christianity. Web. 10 Mar. 2010. <http://www.earlychurch.org.uk/augustine.php>

The Medieval Sourcebook

The Medieval Sourcebook is an online collection of primary sources from the end of the Roman Empire to the time of the Renaissance. It males these sources available to students and others to use as sources for papers and research. These sources give us an insight to what life was like and a first hand account of major historical events, such as the invasion of England in 1066. These first hand accounts give students looking to back up their arguments a source more reliable than any other.

The Medieval Imagination

During the middle ages there were a great many things that were unknown. Literacy and travel was limited and with very few organizations with power, people weren't sure what to believe. In the middle ages a new millennium started and caused people to panic based on the unknown. This happened again 1000 years later in 1999 with the Y2K scare, showing that even though we may be a literate, intelligent, and adaptable, people will always fear the unknown. In the middle ages people began to make up creatures to match their fears. They imagined distant lands with strange creatures like dog men and people with faces on their chests. This showed that the lack of knowledge by the majority of the population, mostly serfs and slaves, caused rumors and stories to spread.

"YouTube - Inside the Medieval Mind-KNOWLEDGE-Pt.1." YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. Web. 14 Apr. 2010. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QcQWhqIQfw>.

First Review - Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece

Review - Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece

Monday, March 22, 2010

9:38 AM

Mesopotamia

• Inventing writing - cuneiform
• Clay tablets
• First law that was ever written down - "eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth"
• Opened up trade routes
• Old testament
• Eden is a place in Mesopotamia
• Southern Iraq
• Mesopotamia - cradle for civilization
• First writing
• First mathematics
• First law
• Architecture

• Place between Tigris and Euphrates was the perfect spot
• Need water to have civilization
• Between the rivers an Oasis - perfect for farming
• model civilization
• Fell due to invasion

Egypt

• Death obsessed
• Nile is another oasis
• Annual flood - makes the nearby land fertile
• Makes immediate area very green and luscious
• Pharaoh was the one responsible for the river flooding - entire life in Egypt revolves around the Nile and its flooding
• 4 months a year Nile water surround villages during the floods - soil is good after it recedes

Greece

• On Crete - Minos had a palace
• Lower chambers the mentor lived
• Legend says that Minos demanded a sacrifice of Athenian boys and girls
• Athenian king went and killed the beast and took Minos' daughter
• in history a great volcanic eruption changed the climate of the island plus a tsunami

• Trojan times
• Helen and Paris leave her husband the Greek king
• Greeks get together and go to troy
• Siege for ten years
• Trojan horse
• Macenie was the most powerful part of Greece at its time
• After this time - the bronze age - go into a dark ages
• Then to goes to the city state era
• Persians at this time
• Battle of thermopoly
• Then battle of Solamis
• Years later Alexander the Great - evenger
• After the Persian wars

Viking Notes

Vikings

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

9:35 AM

• Most of Europe had become Christian
• Celtics in Gaul and Ireland
• Tribal people
• Weren't Christian
• Dribanuistic
• Will eventually integrate
• Become one people

• In the north - Scandinavia
• Christianity hadn't spread
• Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Iceland
• There were Nordic Vikings and Swedish Vikings
• Vikings attack England and Ireland
• Between the 8th and 11th centuries
• Spent a lot of time raiding England

• Believed in Odem
• Afterlife
• If they died in battle they would be greeted as heroes
• Called Norse or Northman
• Two primary sources for Viking mythology are elder Edda and the younger Edda
• Older in poetry younger in prose
• 13th century
• Written down by Christianized Norse in the 13th century
• The second of the important books is the Heimskringla
• Written by Snorri Sturluson
• Legends about the kings
• Not written until the Vikings are gone or Christianized

• In Norse mythology there are nine worlds
• We live on midgard
• To the north is Alfheimer - world of the elves
• To the south is Svartalfaheim - black elves
• To the east Vanaheimer
• Muspellheim - world of fire
• Jotunhemr - world of the giants

• To the west Niflheim - world of ice
• Up is Asgard - where the gods are
• Hel - netherworld
• Furthest away place across the ocean - Ginnungagap
• Vodin is told he can have something very special but he has to hang himself in a tree (Yggdrasil tree, huge tree that stretches into the upper world)
• He hangs for nine days and doesn't die
• He dies for a few seconds and come back to life with the knowledge of Runes
• Runes are their language
• Second big story is Ragnarok
• Great battle at the end of the world where everything is going to burn
• Once the fire goes out there's going to be new civilization

• Had a blood relationship
• If one of them was killed
• The rest were bound to find the

• Erik the Red
• Viking king
• Father of Leif Erikson
• Leif Erikson supposedly found North America
• Colonized Iceland, tried to colonize Greenland, might have tried to colonize northern Canada

Movie

• Had a great civilization
• Were great builders of boats
• Before they were vikings they were farmers
• Just wanted to survive
• Rely on livestock and farming
• Expanding population
• Start fighting each other
• Some decide just to up and leave
• Built boats
• Went to western coast of the british isles
• First raid was on a monastary - one of the richest and holiest places in england at that time
• Lindelsfar first major viking sea raid
• Tons of norse becames vikings
• Form fleets but the fleets act idependently
• To attack more inland places they go up one of the many rivers
• Attack paris
• Ancient terrorists
• Stay on the rivers raiding for years
• Whenever they attack nothing can stop them
• King of France pays off the Vikings so they will leave them alone
• Vikings do the opposite
• They see all the money that they have and start attacking all over Europe
• Norwegians move west and colonize iceland and greenland
• Erik the Red - colonizes greenland
• Harsh but a few hardcore vikings stay
• Have a nice government where people can speak for their defense and speak about community thin gs
• Leif Erikson - Erik the Red's son
• Gets blown off course - might have found newfoundland
• Colony last only a decade
• Leif erikson returns to Greenland
• They convert to christianity
• This is the way they unite
• Struggled with giving up their old ways
• Christians challenge a beserker to try and pass through their fire and they couldn't when he could pass through the pagans fire
• They all see that Chrisianity is more powerful

1066 battle of fulford - Britains and vikings

Vikings led by - harold hardrada