Questions/Answers for "Castle"

                    Question and Answer


1. Who were the people dependent upon?
Answer: The people were dependent upon the lord of the manner.

2.Where did they choose to build? And why?
Answer: They choose to built on a rock next to the water for defense and its easy to escape. 

3. What was the first ring of the castle called?
Answer: The first ring of the castle was called 

4. How long will the walls be on the outer curtain?
Answer:The walls in the outer curtain will be 300 feet high.

5.How thick was the inner curtain?How high?
Answer:The inner curtain was 12 feet thick and 35 feet high. 


6.Make a sketch

7. What's the center of the inner ward?
Answer: In the center of the inner ward there was the living quarters.

8. How many entrances in the town wall? How are they protected?
Answer: There were 3 entrances in the town hall and were protected by gate houses. 

9.Why did people move to towns?
Answer: The people moved to towns because the king needed them to work on his castle.

10.What are the walls filled with?
Answer: The walls were filled with rubble.

11. How are the windows designed, starting from the bottom to the top of the towers?
Answer: The windows in the bottom are designed small enough so that an enemy soldier can not climb through, all the windows will be protected with iron grills and can be closed with wooden shutters. In the top of the towers the windows will be fitted with glass.

12. What are the crenulations used for?
Answer:  Crenulations are used so that a soldier and shoot from the same position without getting hurt.

13. Why are the gate houses not lined up from the inner to the outer ward?
Answer: The gate houses are not lined up from the inner to the outer ward so that and enemy soldier can't go straight in.

14.How are the towers levels divided?
Answer: There 3 rooms in every tower, The first one is in the basement (for storage), in the upper ones were used for living and working space.

15.What defenses are in a gate house?
Answer: The gate houses had defenses like  timber port calus below it to block the entrance and a set of wooden doors and arrow loops in the towers and murder holes in the ceiling that way they can attack from whatever side the enemies are entering and the gate houses start with a draw bridge.

16.What are the buildings made from?
Answers: They are made with wattle and daub.  

17. What lived in the bottom of the barracks? The top?
Answer: They had stables and weapon in the bottom of the barracks and soldiers lived in the top.

18. What is a garderobe?
Answer: A garderobe is a bathroom.

19.Why were nicer rooms higher in the towers?
Answers: Nicer rooms were higher because that way they could have nicer windows.

20.How thick were the walls?
Answer: The walls were 8-10 feet thick.

21. What was used to heat the rooms?
Answer: Fire places were used to heat the rooms.

22. How many rooms were in a tower?
Answer:There were 3 rooms in a tower.

23. What was the most important room in a castle?
Answer: The great hall was the most important room in the castle 

24. How did peasants live?
Answer: The peasants lived wooden shacks.  

25.What was the main material that was used to build medieval homes?
Answer:  The main material used to build houses was wattle and daub.

26. What is wattle? What is a daub?
Answer: Wattle is a woven latis of sticks and is covered on both sides with daub a mixture of mud, cow dong and straw.

27.Why did people settle in towns?
Answer: People settled in towns because of low taxes and a promise of a better life.

28.What is the best location in a town?
Answer: The best location in town is somewhere close to the well 

29.What were the  floors (bottom) made from?
Answer:The floors were made of packterth covered with reeds.

30.What were the windows covered with?
Answers:The windows were covered with oil skin.

31. What was the main source of heat and light?
Answer: The main source of heat and light is their fire.

32. Why would no one want to live behind the butcher shop?
Answers: No one wanted to live behind the butcher shop because other shops are more desirable.

33. What does a barber do? (besides cut hair)
Answer: The barber  cures all types of ills. 

34. Are there sewers?
Answer:Yes there are.

35.Are toilets?
Answer: Yes there are.

36. Where does the waste go?
Answer:It goes to the sespit. 

3rd trimester vocab

                3rd Trimester 
    Our assignment was to define these words and then watch a video and answer questions but thats in another blog. 

Vocabulary



Fiefdom: the estate or domain of a feudal lord


Feudalism: The dominant social system in medieval Europe.

Monarch: A sovereign head of state.

Lord: Someone or something having power, authority, or influence; a master or ruler

Vassal: Someone or something having power, authority, or influence; a master or ruler

Knight: A man who served his sovereign or lord as a mounted soldier in armor.

Peasant: A poor farmer of low social status who owns or rents a small piece of land for cultivation

Commoner: An ordinary person, without rank or title.

Serf: An agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system to work on his lord's estate.

Tradesman: A person engaged in trading or a trade, typically on a relatively small scale.

Merchant: A person or company involved in wholesale trade

Castle: A large building or group of buildings fortified against attack with thick walls, battlements, towers, and in many cases a moat.

Moat: A deep, wide ditch surrounding a castle

Guild: A medieval association of craftsmen or merchants, often having considerable power.

Abbey: The building or buildings occupied by a community of monks or nuns.

High middle ages: The period of European history around the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries 

100 years war: A war between France and England that lasted from middle of the fourteenth century to the middle fifteen.


Black death:  An epidemic outbreak of bubonic plague in Europe around 1348 that killed between one third of the population in less than five years.

meal assignment ingredients/recipies

Our assignment is to make a middle age meal.
In this blog my group and I show what we did as our meal project. In the end of the blog I inserted some of the pictures we took while making the meal.

Meals:

*Fried fish

*White Rice

*Oatcakes

*Vegetables

* Cider

Recipes/ Ingredients:

Fried Fish:

-3 fish fillets
-1 bar of butter      
-bread crumbs
-Salt
- eggs
                                          
Cover the fillet in egg yolk. Add butter to pan(preferable amount). In a plate add bread crumbs to the fish fillet and put it in the pan. Once its on the pan add salt (preferable amount).

White Rice:

- 1 cup of rice
-butter
- 1 1/2 Cup of water
  
Add 2 cups of water in a pot and let it boil for a while. Then add 1 cup of rice and let it boil. After a while add a little bit of butter.                                 

Basic Oatcakes

-1 lb whole meal flour
-8 oz. of oatmeal
-Melted butter 
                                                                                    
       Mix all the ingredients together in a large bowl until you have a fairly wet dough. Cover with a damp cloth and leave out of the sun for about 30 minutes. Flour your hands, break off walnut sized pieces of dough, and shape them into flat cakes. Get your griddle good and hot, or they will cook slowly and turn into hockey pucks! Cook the cakes quickly for about 30 seconds each side.

Vegetables:
3-4 carrots
1 bunch of broccoli
A little bit of salt
1/2 a cup of water

Cut the vegetables in preferable sizes. Gather all the vegetables and put in a pot. Add some water and let them boil for a while. when they are almost ready add some salt.


Pictures:

URL:

http://thevikingworld.pbworks.com/w/page/4842629/Traditional%20Viking%20Foods

http://www.medieval-recipes.com/recipes/fish/


http://www.medievalcookery.com/recipes/rys.html


Credits:
Help from my mom

Daily blogs

April 11: Looked up common foods in the European Middle ages

April 12, 15: Look for recipes from middle ages

April 18: Update blogs and choose who's bringing the ingredients

April 19: Fixed blogs and decided what house we are going to

Compare & Contrast

                Compare and Contrast

          Magna Carta & U.S Constitution

Similarities:

- Freedom in religion

-In the Magna Carta only the Parliament could levy taxes in the U.S. Constitution only the congress can levy taxes

- The right for a fair Trial

- In the U.S. the three branches of government are the parallel to the Parliament.

- The right of fair fines

- No one can be placed in a trial without a credible witness

- The law of land provision


- President or ruler can not inflict cruel punishment against citizens



Differences:

- Different time periods

-Magna Carta made by King John & Barons

-Constitution was made for everyone not just for the rich and powerful

- Magna Carta was written in Latin

- Magna Carta is no longer used

- Set for different parts of the world

- U.S doesn't have a parliament

US constitution Vocab

           U.S. Constitution Vocabulary  

* Legislative- having the power to make laws

* Enumeration-  a complete, ordered listing of all the items in a collection

* Subsequent- coming after something in time; following

* Vacancies- an unoccupied position or job

* Legislature- the legislative body of a country or state

* Impeachment- a formal process in which an official is accused of unlawful activity

* Concurrence- the simultaneous occurrence of events or circumstances

* Indictment- a formal charge or accusation of a serious crime

* Regulation- a rule or directive made and maintained by an authority

* Amendment- a minor change in a document

* Quorum- the minimum number of members of an assembly or society that must be present at any of its meetings to make the proceedings of that meeting valid

* Secrecy- the action of keeping something secret or the state of being kept secret

* Compensation- something, typically money, awarded to someone as a recompense for loss, injury, or suffering.

* Adjournment- an act or period of adjourning or being adjourned

* Counterfeiting- imitate fraudulently

* Tribunals- a court of justice

*Arsenal- a collection of weapons and military equipment stored by a country, person, or group

* Dock-Yards- an area or establishment with docks and equipment for repairing and maintaining ships  

* Attainder-the forfeiture of land and civil rights suffered as a consequence of a sentence of death for treason or felony

*Expenditures- the action of spending funds

*Emolument- a salary, fee, or profit from employment or office

*Confederation-an organization that consists of a number of parties or groups united in an alliance or league

* Misdemeanors- a minor wrongdoing

*Controversies- disagreement, typically when prolonged, public, and heated


* Corruption-

dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power, typically involving bribery

* Jurisdiction- the official power to make legal decisions and judgments

* Hereunto- to this document.

Events leading up to the signing of the US constitution

      Events Leading up to the Signing of the 

                        Us Constitution

* 1775,the war between the Colonies and Britian 

*1776,13 colonies become 13 states but are not united by the same government

* 1781,the last revolutionary War takes place the 13 states set up a federal government under laws called the Articles of Confederation.

*1786,  In Annapolis and Maryland 5 representatives meet to discuss interstate trade, since there were only a few representatives Alexander Hamilton and James Madison call for another convention to be held in Philadelphia.

* 1787,In Philadelphia on May 25 The Constitutional Convention begins. 55 representatives begin drafting the US Constitution.  On September 17, 1787 the representatives sign the Constitution.

*1788, The constitution becomes the law of the land 




Citation

http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/creating-us-constitution-time-line

Magna Carta Vocabulary

                                    Vocabulary

*Archbishop-the chief bishop responsible for an archdiocese

*Bishops-member of the Christian clergy, typically in charge of a diocese and empowered to confer holy orders.

*Abbots-a man who is the head of an abbey of monks.

*Earls-a British nobleman ranking above a viscount and below a marquess

*Justciaries-the administration of justice

*Bailiffs-a person who performs certain actions under legal authority, in particular

*Subdeacon-a minister of an order ranking below deacon

*Liegemen-a vassal who owes feudal service or allegiance to a nobleman

*Ratification -the official way to confirm something, usually by vote

*Aforesaid-another term for aforementioned

*Wardship- care and protection of a ward

*Fief-an estate of land, especially one held on condition of feudal service

*Wainage-implements of feudal husbandry

*Disparagement-the act of speaking about someone in a negative or belittling way

*Dower-a widow's share for life of her husband's estate

*Chattels-a personal possession

*Indemnified-compensate  for harm or loss

*Residue-a small amount of something that remains after the main part has gone or been taken or used.

*Scutage-money paid by a vassal to his lord in lieu of military service

*Ransoming-obtain the release of (a prisoner) by making a payment demanded

* Boroughs-a town or district that is an administrative unit, in particular

*Assessing-evaluate or estimate the nature, ability, or quality of

*Expiry-the end of the period for which something is valid

*Summons-an order to appear before a judge or magistrate, or the writ containing it

*Tenement-a room or a set of rooms forming a separate residence within a house or block of apartments

*Pleas-a request made in an urgent and emotional manner

*Ecclesiastical-of or relating to the Christian Church or its clergy.

*Constable-a peace officer with limited policing authority

*Demesne-land attached to a manor and retained for the owner's own use 

*Felony-a crime, typically one involving violence

*Writ-a form of written command in the name of a court or other legal authority to act, or abstain from acting, in some way

*Selvedges-an edge produced on woven fabric during manufacture that prevents it from unraveling.

*Inquisition-a period of prolonged and intensive questioning or investigation

*Henceforth-from this time on or from that time on

*Realm-a kingdom

*Abbeys-he building or buildings occupied by a community of monks or nuns

*Hitherto-until now or until the point in time under discussion

*Bailiwicks- one's sphere of operations or particular area of interest

*Amercements- a financial penalty in English law

Citation 

went on Google and searched up the definitions