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?
Both medieval England and Ancient Rome had very little free time. When they do, they play games and sports.
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.
They can also import from different parts of Roman area, such as oysters and ham.
Wealthy food also includes, eggs, cheese, lettuce, cakes and ice cream.
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?
they ate bread, vegetable soup, olives, lentils, hazelnuts, barley and porridge.
Why are families a building block of society?
•Describe 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?
They were taught household skills and how to take care of children. Some girls from wealthy families have tutors at home. They might learn to sing, dance or play a musical instrument.
How many meals in a day did Medieval England have as a family?
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 peacock, wild boar, songbirds, and dormice were popular.
Slaves provide food, drink and entertainment.
Who were the people of six nations?
First Nations 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 responsibilities 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 crops.
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 did families do for
What is a dog?
What are the responsibilities of men of the six nations?
They hunted, fished, traded, and fought in wars.
They were also responsible for clearing the land for farming and for building longhouses.
Men served as chief's in government.
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.
What does children do in six nations?
They spent time with their fathers with hunting, fishing and learning the land for farming.
Girls helped their mothers run their household.
What is patriarchy mean?
This means that in a family, the father or oldest male made all the important decisions. A lord was responsible for everyone in his household.
What is woman's role in both medieval England and Ancient Rome?
a woman's role was to have children and care for her family.
Women did housework, including making cheese and butter.
They spun wool, sewed clothes, and looked after children.
Both peasant and noble - man go for war while woman have to take care of men's tasks and their own.
How were children educated in six nations?
Children of six nations did not go to school. They learned by listening to and watching their parents and clan elders.
Elders are role models and teachers to all members of the clan.
Played with different games. Most games are practice skills that would help them in their adult lives. Boys played with bows and arrows and girls played with corn husk dolls.
Boys played summer sport like lacrosse. lacrosse teaches aim, speed, and strength.
What food did families have for Six Nations people?
Men fished and hunted deer, rabbit, elk, birds, and raccoons.
Women grew vegetables like corn, beans, and squash.
Wild berries and nuts were collected from forests.
People tapped maple trees for syrup for natural sweetener.