Renaissance Fair Relfection

I had many new experiences during the Renaissance Fair. For example, one of my new experiences was learning new dances and being able to remember and perform them. I’m not the kind of person who likes to dance so learning dances like these was a brand new experience for me. Another new experience for me was playing the recorder. Before this unit, I had only played one instrument and that was the guitar for school as well so, playing the recorder in the Renaissance fair was also a new experience. The Renaissance fair took a lot of planning and hard work from all of the students and teachers. We were required to memorize lines we were given for our play, “Midsummer Night’s Dream” written by William Shakespeare. We also needed to know how to play the recorder, an instrument that we had been using for a period of time before the Renaissance fair. Also, we needed to know how to perform our dances and in what order they would be in. Finally, we had to be aware of what order all of this went in on the night of the Renaissance fair. Experiencing the Renaissance fair was something completely new for me. I have never been to a Renaissance fair so when I first heard about it, I wasn’t sure what to think about it but, after be able to be a part of one, I ultimately decided that it was a very interesting event to experience.

Charlemagne Short Biography

Charlemagne was King of the Franks for fifty years. He is well known as the king who united almost all of Europe's small provinces into one, big kingdom. Charlemagne first became sole emperor in 771 after the death of his brother, Carloman 1, who he had been co-running his kingdom with after the death of their father.  Once he was under rule of the Franks, he began expanding his empire by first conquering all the weak states around him and then using his armies to attack and conquer stronger ones. In 800, Charlemagne was crowned emperor of Rome by pope Leo III after his takeover of Italy. In all, Charlemagne ruled for over fifty years and died in 814 but his legacy long lived on after his death.

Feudalism and the Manor System, Why Poor Peasants Remained Poor

Feudalism- Was a form of government in medieval Europe. In this  form of government, land was owned by either a king or a lord but was being operated by vassals. In return, the kings or lords would offer them their loyalty.

The Manor System- The Manor System was how a feudalistic government's economy was run. The economy was a based on a Manor, an estate that included farm fields, pastures, and in some cases, entire villages.

In Medieval times, peasants were very poor. Almost all of them worked on farms for vassals or, they owned little plots of land but were forced to give half of their crop to a vassal or their lord. Because of this, many peasants lived their entire lives with very little money. In a sense, peasants were born into what seemed to be a dead end job with little or no chance of breaking away from the fields or manors and moving up in the social class. I think that because of this, they believed that they were going to have to live out their lives working tirelessly day-in, day-out for their lord.