The Dawn of Castles

​Dawn of the Castles

• I can explain the manorial system and feudal relationships including the status of peasants and feudal monarchs

• ​I can describe the impact of the Tokugawa Shogunate policies on the social structure of Japan

• I can describe the impact of the Qing and Ming Dynasty policies on the social structure of China

​

Learning Targets

Multiple Select

Based on the learning targets, which two continents will we be visiting today?

• Africa

• Europe

• Asia

• America

• Australia

• Western Roman Empire fell in 476

• Pepin - king of the Franks in 751*

• Pope crowns Charlemagne the Holy Roman Emperor in 800

• Weak leadership after his death led to a feudal society in Europe by 814

• The Frankish Empire covered a large portion of western Europe

​

The Franks

Division of Land

Poll

What do you think happens to Carloman?

• He died of some disease unknown to them at the time

• He died of the Bubonic Plague

• Charles killed him

• He fought in the crusades and lost his life in battle

• Manor - included a church, village,

  land, peasants, vassals, knights

• Lord - owns the land/manor

• Fief - a piece of land

• Vassal - someone who receives

  land from a lord or monarch

• Knight - loyalty to lord or

  monarch by protecting the manor

• Serfs and Peasants - worked the land - Peasants had more freedoms, Serfs were legally bound to the land and had to have permission for different things

​

Feudal Terminology

The Tower of London

​William the Conqueror - 1076







Roman Wall - 200s

​Duke of Wellington - 1850s

Open Ended

Do you remember what the "teeth" on the top of structures that warriors used as shields is called?

European Feudal Pyramid

Medieval Architecture

• Tokugawa established a feudal system that lasted from 1600-1868

• Tokugawa Shogunate

  • Peace and stability

  • Internal trade thrived

  • Limited contact with foreigners

    • no missionaries

    • no trade

​

Japanese Feudalism

Japanese Feudal Pyramid

Japanese Feudal Pyramid

• Corruption came in the 19th century

• Isolation ended in 1850

  • Commodore Matthew Perry

• ​Shogunate overthrown and restored emperor

  • Meiji Restoration

End of Tokugawa Shogunate

• Established in 1368 after they kicked out the Mongols

• Great Wall of China (for real)

• Confucianism

• Social Order

  • Scholars-Gentry

  • Farmers

  • Artisans and Merchants

• Growth in arts, repairs done

• Limited foreign interaction

• Manchu conquered Beijing in 1644

​

Ming Dynasty

• Began in 1644 with the Manchu conquering the Ming Dynasty

• Manchu not Chinese

• Kept people segregated

• Maintained Confucianism

• Population boomed 18-19th centuries

• Corruption, repairs not made, floods

• Peasant rebellion - Buddhist White Lotus Society - 1796

• Taiping Rebellion 1840-1864

• Republic of China takes over in 1912

Qing Dynasty

Chinese Hair Politics