Family life
What is a betrothal?
It's the first step into a marriage. This was like a promise between two families that the couple would be married.
What is a merchants?
Merchants are people involved in business or trade
What did families do for fun?
What type of food did Medieval England families ate?
They ate bread, grains, cheese, meat, fish and apples.
They think fresh vegetables and fruits were unhealthy so they ate POTTAGE.
POTTAGE was vegetables and meat boiled with water to become a thick mush.
What did Ancient Rome wealthy families eat?
Light breakfast, then light lunch. They ate their main meal, dinner in the evening. Wealthy families could afford to eat fish, chicken and beef.
What does the groom gave the bride on the wedding day?
Who received education?
Wealthy rich boys gets to go to school while girls stay home to help with family chores.
What are some entertainment in Medieval England?
Storytelling, singing and playing instruments.
Children play with toys such as spinning tops. they also play board games, war games, sporting games.
What did Rome do for entertainment?
They played a game similar to Jacks, called knucklebones.
They played board games similar to chess and checkers.
Families went to stadium and theatre to watch events. (Chariot races, gladiator fights)
What do poor families eat in Ancient Rome?
Why are families a building block of society?
Describes the different roles and responsibilities of family members in the three early societies.
What did the girls do if they didn't go to school?
How many meals in a day did Medieval England have as a family?
2 meals per day. Late morning, they stopped work and eat 1st meal called dinner. (main meal) In the late afternoon, families ate a smaller meal, called supper.
What is a banquet?
Wealthy Romans held feasts, called banquets that last many hours.
To show wealth and host to other people and slaves prepare unusual and expensive foods. Like peacook, wild boar, songbirds, and dormice were popular.
Slaves provide food, drink and entertainment.
Who were the people of six nations?
First nation people lived around the Great lakes and south of the St. Lawrence river in North America.
Five of these groups were the Seneca, cayuga, onondaga, oneida, and mohawk. and sixth nation joined later called, Tuscarora.
What roles and responsibilites did family members have?
Boys and girls had different jobs and responsibilities.
Girls spent time with their mothers, who learn to cook, sew, spin, and weave.
Peasant boys and girls look after their family's animals, help plant and harvest corps.
boys learn to herd sheep, geese, and to raise pigs. also might learn to craft, and woodworking.
only boys from rich family receive education. (go to school)
What does matriarchal mean in six nation clans?
This means that the women made all the major decisions, and children traced their ancestry through their mothers. (children learn history through their mothers)
Woman made all the decisions about how the land and food were divided among clans. Woman also cooked and cared for the children and ran the household, planted and harvest the crops.