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Caesar's Assassination. On the Ides of March (March 15th) Caesar was murdered, by the senators who called themselves the Liberatores, which included Caesar's Brother in law, Marcus Junius Brutus. The reason for this act of treason is because the senators wished that the Roman Republic would be reborn from the ashes. the famous phrase "Et tu Brutus?" was first made famous during Caesar's murder. This phrase means "You too Brutus?" Caesar had directed this for Marcus Junius Brutus, Caesar's brother in law. Soon civil war broke out between the Liberatores after Caesar's death. Thus leading to the desicion of Caesar's adopted son, Octavious to establish a permanent monarchy. Which can be also referred to as the Roman Empire.

Byzantine empire. - in 330 C.E Emperor constantine moves the capital to a place called Constantineople. - Why? because rome is weakend: inflation, barbarians, political troubles - also because of defend of trade. - the western empire threatens to drag the eastern Empire down with it - why was it so awesome? : great trading, took all the ideas of rome, and wasnt corrupt, religion, art, military, political organization. - wealthy because of taxes. - christianity becomes the official religion after the empire splits - the emperor is the head of the eastern orthodox church - had a system of checks and balances - had greek fire - and the military was the storngest

Mapping the Modern Muslim World 1. - The women don't have to wear veils and they can wear jewelry 2. - they are from different cultures so they would have to be different. Thus Muslims are from all over the world.

==**__Assignment 1__** Look at the //World Muslim Population// map in the resources section above and answer the following questions on your student page ==

3. Which country has the highest Muslim population? Why do you think this country has the highest population?
==Indonesia, i think this is because Muslim people were near that area and then they got pushed out of their land. ==

This is because the people like to spread the word of Allah out to other places.
=Key Terms & People= Put in student page/ Define by using resources

=**Main Ideas**=
 * Middle Ages- the period of European history from the fall of the roman empire in the West to the fall of constantinople.
 * medieval- of or relation to the Middle ages
 * Patrick-
 * monks- a member of a religious community of men typically living under vows of poverty, Chasity, and obedience.
 * monasteries- a community of persons living under religious vows
 * Benedict-
 * Charlemagne- king of the Franks from 768 B.C to 814 B.C


 * Answer the following questions in your** STUDENT PAGE

1. a. How are monks and monasteries related? this is because monks live in places called monasteries.

b. Why did missionaries travel to northern Europe? to spread the gospel of God

c. Why do you think monks followed such strict rules? I think because these people believe they will be closer to God

2. a. What is Charlemagne famous for? He expanded the Empire's land further (Much further) and built schools across the country

b. What do you think Charlemagne’s greatest accomplishment was? Why? I think it was the making of schools because it would be much better than having to rule over a land of stupid morons

3. a. What areas of Europe did the Vikings raid? Ireland, London, and other parts of western Europe.

b. Why were people in Europe so frightened of Viking raids? Because Vikings were not only limited to coastal raids. They could reach inland as well.

5-14-09 classwork.

Assignment 1

1. the barbarians were not always friendly to each other because the barbarians wanted more land and they were ferocious so of course there would have been wars between them. 2. The **Merovingians** were a Salian Frankish dynasty that came to rule the Franks in a region largely corresponding to ancient Gaul from the middle of the fifth century. 3. Clovis was a Merovingian king who first loved to see people die on the field of battle, but then he converted to Christianity and followed the ways of God.

Assignment 2

 1. the middle ages is considered from the time of the fall of the roman empire to and from the fall of Constantinople. 2. Medieval is the Latin term for the middle ages 3. Medieval times were called the dark ages because education was not very strong and when empires should flourish, Medieval times went backward. also because of the Black Death, many, many people died. 4. other places flourished while England was in the Medieval state. 5. AD 476 is when it started and 1450 AD is when it ended. 6. Renaissance means the rebirth.

Assignment 3

1. Charlemagne conquered all the surrounding areas and that is how he made the franks 2. Charlemagne educated people by making schools. 3. The scholars copied another copy of the ancient texts.

Weapons in the Middle ages. There were many different types of weapons. A variety of Axes, Swords, Lances, and Maces. A axe used by many people was the Battle axe, which was very dangerous to cavalrymen. Another was the Pole Axe. It had a hammer at the end of the axe head as well as the blade. the last type of axe was the short axe. this was much lighter and was better for horse back. The next type of weapon was the sword. there were many different types of these swords much more than the axes. There was the great sword. these were two-handed swords. the sword that was used mostly by nobles or richer people was the shining sword. this sword had my different decorations on the hilt. the runner-up sword was the dagger, in the case of the sword was knocked out of the knight's hand, the dagger would be the knight's next defense. A lance was a long javelin type weapon that was used for crashing into the ranks of infantry or other cavalry. The mace was a long staff with a huge metal head at the end.

Knights and their Armor. At first, Medieval blacksmiths made armor called, chain mail. chain mail is armor where little tiny chains are connected to each other. but, this chain mail could not withstand powerful attacks from maces and such so, blacksmiths created a new type of armor. the Plate mail. much more sturdy and well defended, it proved very strong against all attacks but, it was heavy, also, it took forever to put the thing on.

Jousts and tournaments A joust was a medieval sport in which two knights charged at each other from the opposite directions trying to knock the opponent from his saddle with a weapon called a lance. this was a very hard task for the saddle was 1 foot high, so unless the opponent was hot very hard, there was almost no chance of the opponent flying of his horse. there were other tournaments like the melee where two teams had clubs and blunt swords tried to demolish the other teams flag. the flag was located on the back of each player.