Reasons for The Fall of the Roman Empire
Getting too big
What is overexpansion?
Roads
What is infrastructure?
An overarching question that can have a yes-no answer
What is an essential question?
The Pope
Who is the head of the Catholic Church?
A system in which people were given land and protection by people of higher rank, and worked and fought for them in return. (Collins Dictionary)
What is feudalism?
Split in two
What are the Eastern and Western Roman Empires?
Aqueducts
What is engineering?
An overarching question that can be answered in many different ways- often making it more interesting.
What is a compelling question?
What is education?
The head of a feudal society?
What is a monarch? (King)
Attacked from all sides
What are Barbarian invasions?
Domes and arches
What is architecture?
Questions we answer to better understand an essential or compelling question.
What are supporting questions?
The Church provided a place where people believe in the same thing and feel a sense of belonging. This is called a...
What is a community?
Knights
What are soldiers? What is the 3rd rank in a feudalistic hierarchy? (or something similar)
Lots of power grabs and changes in leadership
What is political instability?
Christianity
What is religion?
Roughly 500-1500 CE (Common Era)
What are the Middle Ages (Medieval Times)
The actual name for a payment for forgiveness
What is an indulgence?
The people working the fields or providing services
Who are peasants? Or, who are serfs?
The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, bribery, giving friends and family positions of power
What is corruption?
Separation of power,
voice of the people (Democracy)
What is government?
One type of question has a yes-no answer, and the other does not.
What is the difference between an essential question and a compelling question?
Faith and belief
What are the fundamental reasons the Catholic Church kept so much power?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY- 2X points
Was feudalism an effective social and political system?
[Answer must include a claim and 3 reasons]
Answers will vary