Feudalism

1. Identify the impact the different invaders had on Medieval Europe

It made the Europeans want protection from the invaders and that is when feudalism came about to help the Europeans needs.

2. Explain feudalism and chivalry

Well to explain feudalism there were four different groups of people (from lowest to highest in social importance): 1) peasants, 2) the knights, 3) the lords, 4) the king. The peasants looked for land to grow their crops and the lords gave them the land in exchange for a part of the food that they grew. The knights were usually the second born son in royalty who wouldn't inherit anything so he usually became a knight after being a Squire. Then he sought for money from the lords, and the knights gave them protection in exchange for money. The lords got protection from the knights and food from the peasants so I think they had it the best. The king didn't get much though. The lords were sworn to protect the king, but he couldn't tax them and he didn't get much out of it. Chivalry was how they conducted themselves in battle they were brave noble loyal to their lord. They also had to not only respect noblewomen but also protect them. They also wouldn't attack a knight until he had his armor on, which would be awful. Chivalry helped reduce some aspects of the warfare at that time.
3. Explain how feudalism impacted the king. The lords? the knights? the peasants?

Well it wasn't that good to the peasants I mean they did get land and food but they could never become anything better than a peasant. for the knights I think it was good that they could become something even though they wouldn't get any inheritance. For the lords it was great, but I think they became a little to greedy at times, that's why they attacked other lords to get more power.
It wasn't that good to the king but he can't complain because he is the king, the most powerful.
4. Discuss why feudalism failed to meet the needs of the Europe.

I think it failed to meet the needs of Europe because there was supposed to be more protection, but when there was no battle the lords fought each other and it wasn't any better than being attacked from outside
5. Explain the defenses for a castle.

The defenses for a castle were a moat, Location like on a mountain or an ocean, it would be harder to attack from just one side, Inner wall, after the moat there was another wall that invaders had to destroy in order to get at the castle, Castle built of stone, was very strong thick and high, one entrance
there was always only one entrance so they could concentrate their defense on that one spot because that was the way the got in. And also there were little slits in the walls that allowed the archers from inside the castle to shoot but not get shot at.

The rule of Charlamagne

1 Explain the role of Charlemagne in unifying Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire
Well he unified the people in Europe with religion. He made everyone become Catholic, and attacked the non-Catholics, because at the time there were a lot of different religions in Europe. He encouraged everyone to follow the Catholic teaching's and because of the work he put into this the Pope Leo the third crowned Charlemagne "Emperor of the Romans".

2 Identify the steps taken by Charlemagne to strengthen hies power
He first Encompassed himself with intelligent government officials. They were called "missi dominici" They acted as messengers to different lords throughout the kingdom for Charlemagne.
He made laws that were enforced throughout the kingdom and he also got judges to enforce these laws on a local level.
He also pushed for Christianity by sending missionaries throughout the kingdom he also helped the church establish Parishes (districts) throughout the kingdom. And each of the parishes had a priest. But the priest cost money so he made everyone pay a tithe 10% so he could pay for them.

3 Explain why Charlemagne's unifying influence in Europe did not last
I don't think it lasted that long because he sort of forced everyone to be Catholic and a lot of people didn't want to be so after he died and the male heirs each took a part of the empire, it wasn't united anymore and the people did whatever they wanted.

Abe Lincoln

I have recently been reading about Abraham Lincoln who was the 16th president of the United States of America. He grew up in a small log cabin in Kentucky, it had now windows and the floor was dirt. His father Thomas Lincoln was a hard working farmer and had had little schooling. His mom on the the other hand Nancy Lincoln could read a little but she couldn't write. They were a poor family, and moved from small farm to small farm trying to get more money. When Abraham was 7 they moved to Indiana. Abraham Lincoln was a strong and tall boy for his age and he could chop wood as good as a grown man could. But when he killed a wild turkey he found he couldn't hunt because he couldn't kill anything. When he was nine years old his mother died and he was very sad. His dad couldn't take care of the children and earn money so he went and got a new wife, her name was Sarah Johnston and was a widow of three children. Abraham came to love her and became closer to her than to his own father. Abraham hadn't had real schooling and had only gone to an A,B,C school when you only learn the letters and don't know how to read. Sarah had brought books with her though and he soon learned how to read them and he memorized some passages in Shakespeare.

Getting a sheep - Narration

It had started to snow on April 2, 2018 in Newbury Massachussets. The Timothy family lived there and were very annoyed that it was snowing because it had been 80 degrees a couple days ago, and it had officially been the start of spring on March 20th. The Timothy family had recently gotten a Pregnant ewe that was most likely going to give birth to 2 lambs. London who was 13 yrs old had been sick but was getting better and only had a runny nose now had finished his breakfast with his mom was ready to go outside to see the sheep and give it its daily grain in the morning. His sister who's name was Skye had woken up late 10 O'clock, she could wake up this late because all of the kids were home schooled including Ian who was the oldest at 15. Skye was 10. London went out with Skye and mom and they went to feed the grain to the sheep  Hope ate it quickly and smelled everyone if they had more. "Let's take her out so she can walk around" said momSo we did, London opened the door and she walked out. We made sure that we all had grain so she would come to us. We walked to the back but then she stopped and started eating the grass a little. There wasn't that much grass anywhere else and she liked this little spot here there was some grass. So we walked back and fed her a little grain. "Let's go up on the other side" said mom So we went on the other side and she followed us. We found some spinach that mom had dropped the other day and fed it to Hope Mom noticed that Hope had a weird space in between her teeth. She pulled her mouth open and we saw there was a big space and a piece of grain in there. "Go see in your book if it says anything about that" said Mom and Skye ran back to the house. Then London and Mom walked back towards home and Mom searched on what plants are harmful to sheep because Hope was eating the grass that had some little bits of sumac in it. Mom found out that she couldn't eat dock and a few other things but sumac wasn't one of those, then she found that she could eat carrots and she remembered that she had two dried up gone bad carrots. "London go get those carrots so we can feed them to Hope" she said and London ran as fast as he could to go get the carrots. But when he ran so fast hope got startled and she ran away into our neighbors yard. Mom called her and held out her hand with grain but hope went farther away. So we followed her and we were afraid that she would go on the road and die there. She kept on running away! London went inside and got the carrots and got Skye. Skye didn't help much, and Hope wouldn't go to her either. Then Bubi came (Mom's dad) and Skye started yelling at him because he scared hope back towards the other yard. Bubi yelled back. Mom said not to get mad at him because he was trying to help. Then Bubi got a little grain and went to give it to her but she ran away. He said that it wasn't her grain that it was the chickens again and again, until Skye said she wasn't a Gloopachka. Then mom tried to grab her wool but she couldn't hold onto Hope. Then London gave Hope a carrot and she gobbled it up. Then Bubi came. London gave her the bigger carrot but didn't let her eat it he pulled on it while she pulled back, while this was happening Bubi came up from behind and grabbed onto her wool, she tried to get away and Bubi fell onto his knees and London fell down but Bubi held on and he got control of her. Mom came to the rescue (what an awesome mommy!), and put the leash around her neck and London fed her the carrot. We led her back into the stall and we all breathed a huge sigh of relief. Then Skye went to take the chickens out of the stall and Bubi held Hope in place. Once she got them out and got out herself, Bubi was to come out and she said "He's going to let her out now" I couldn't believe my ears when she said that and was going to teach her a lesson but because London is always so nice he didn't hurt her. (until after :)

Beachside Game Review

(1) Differences 1st from 2nd half
Well in the first half we we played negative way too much and in the second half we played forward more quickly. In the first half there were a couple times where we went back to the keeper 3 or four times but in the second half we turned out and broke pressure.

In the first half we had trouble connecting passes but in the second we kept the ball more.
In the first half we didn't turn and change the point of attack and were a little slow on the ball, but in the second half we changed the point of attack more and kept the ball.

In the first half our press was very high and they kept playing long, but in the second half we dropped off and let them play short and we got a goal out of it.

(2) 3 good things I did 3 things I still have to improve
I had some good tackles and a couple slide tackles

I won some headers and had a few good clearances

I had good pass completion and I had some good 1 v 1 defending

(3) 3 things I still have to improve
I should have played forward more instead of going back to Sam

I should have not been so tight to the striker when i was to tight he rolled me so i need to drop a little bit and then step onto him so he can't roll me but i should also not let him turn

I also should have organized the back line more and help Quinn out when he was playing center back

() How I felt before the game

I felt a little tired because I didn't sleep that well and the car drive was very long, I also felt cold