Monday, April 28, 2008

post here for Monday night

Sorry this went up so late!

15 comments:

Anonymous said...

1) What rights did woman earn, why did they conceal themselves with a veil?
2) Why were monks and priest the only people educated?
3) Who exactly were the Lombard's?
4) How long did Charlemagne's father Pepin rule?

Anonymous said...

Zach Says:

I was curious about the Treaty of Verdun. This was the treaty that divided the Carolingian Empire into three parts.
I found a map of the three parts

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Carolingian_Empire_map_1895.jpg

Anonymous said...

By 600, the reading says that Rome was switching from the Roman Empire to Germanic Kingdoms and rome had lost all its polital importance. I was wondering if this could have been avoided if the area had more protection. Communities were forced to take refuge under local lords and storgmen where looters and pillagers might come. If the armies aroudn the byzantyne empire had put up protection, would it have dissinagrated like it did?

Anonymous said...

What were the viking ships made out of?
Did the lombards take over the ostrogoths? What caused them to replace each other?
How technologically advanced were the Vikings?

Anonymous said...

I was reading and i first came across the few sentences about the Germanics, and it didn't really give a whole lot of information on them so i wanted to get a little more on them:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_peoples
^this link is a wikipedia article about them

http://www.amazon.com/Roman-Empire-Its-Germanic-Peoples/dp/0520244907/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1209426178&sr=1-2
^and this is a link to a "search inside" book that i found on amazon that is called The Roman Empire And It's Germanic People, and the first few pages did give some good, interesting background about the Germanic people


Something else that i wanted to know more about while i was reading was Charlemagne. The reading does not give us a lot of information about when he was or why he was important so i researched him a little more:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlemagne
^this link is just a wikipedia article with some interesting information on it

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS272&q=Charlemagne&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
^this link is to a google image search of him; in most of the pictures he is either on a horse or surrounded by people who seem to be almost worshpping at his feet which i thought was interesting

http://www.chronique.com/Library/MedHistory/charlemagne.htm
^this website is a very descriptive and detailed biography of him

http://globalgenealogy.com/globalgazette/images/gazxs42a.jpg
^and finally this is a link to a map of Charlemagne's Empire sometime during his rule

Anonymous said...

Below is a link about the Lombards. It shows some things that belonged to them such as artifacts and crowns.

http://www.hp.uab.edu/image_archive/ujg/ujgm.html

Below is a link about Charlemagne. It talks about his grandfather Charles Martel also.

http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/Santiago/histchrl.html

Also I had a few questions.
1) What was the role of women in the middle ages?
2) Do we know why the women wore veils? By choice? by force?
3) What was the purpose of the Treaty of Verdun?

Anonymous said...

Here is a picture of serfs paying their lord from Encyclopedia Britannica...

http://www.britannica.com/eb/art-86896/A-painting-shows-serfs-giving-animals-to-their-lord

Here are some questions:
1. How were the Viking women treated?
2. Were there any major "serf revolts", like there are slave revolts in history?

Anonymous said...

I was interested in learning a little about the germanic people and where they come from. I found a site that has a good diagram of where the different groups of germanic people came from and what they evolved into.

http://www.friesian.com/germania.htm

I was also wondering about where Ravenna is. Here is a map of italy and it has the small portion of Ravenna highlighted. I do not think this has major significance since it is such a small province but here's the link anyways.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ravenna_posizione.png

One thing i am still very curious about is what the meaning of the names ostrogoth, visigoth, hun, viking, vandal, etc. mean and where the names came from. If anybody can find this that would be really interesting

Anonymous said...

This is a link I found that shows the route (on a map) of the Viking raids:
http://vikings.heindorffhus.dk/intro-VikingMap.gif

A question I have is what went on in the North and South before the manors?

Anonymous said...

1. What was the treaty of Verdun?
2. Why did the women wear veils?
3. What were the viking ships made out of?

this is a link to a picture of a viking ship

http://www.khm.uio.no/bilder_vsh/oseberg_1.jpg


This is a picture of what the veils the women wore.

http://www.geocities.com/FashionAvenue/7863/medw4.jpg

Anonymous said...

Here is a link to a little bit more information about manors.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transwiki:English_manors

1) Who inherited the manors? Was it the oldest son or what?

2) Why did France invade England in 1066

Anonymous said...

Posted by Kristen
http://www.culturalresources.com/MP_Century17.html
This site has a good map of the Charlemagne Empire including how it was divided.
I am also interested in the role of women in the middle ages and the Feudal system.
http://themiddleages.tripod.com/feudal_system.htm
This site explains the Feudal System briefly, and it also has links to other Middle Ages topics.

Anonymous said...

Posted by Madeline Burroughs:

I was interested in learning more about Charlemagne so I researched a little bit on him. I also did a OneNote page on Charlemagne as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlemagne
^ this is a link kind of focusing on the background of Charlemagne and what he did. It's a Wikipedia article so it has some pretty good and interesting information

http://www.chronique.com/Library/MedHistory/charlemagne.htm
^this is another good site on Charlemagne, giving more background information.

I did not have a lot of questions on the reading; I was mostly interested in Charlemagne.

Anonymous said...

1) why did the women begin to wear a veil?
2)were the vikings ahead or behind time? if so by how much
3)how much did the womens roles change?
4)were the viking women treated different than the other women?
also i dont really understand the treaty of verdun.

Anonymous said...

Posted By Claire

The Treaty of Verdun interested me, and I wanted to know more about it...

It was a treaty that divided the empire into three parts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Verdun
^Basic Info
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Carolingian_Empire_map_1895.jpg
^Map

Also, I wanted to know more about the gender roles of women- what rights they had (or gained or lost during the era) and how they were generally treated.