viernes, 17 de mayo de 2013

The Church in the Middle Ages

Hi kids!
The Church was extremely important for the people in medieval Europe, as we have

already seen. This video shows the importance of the Church in those times.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra2t3S8jp8w




Now, after watching the video, answer the following questions:

1) Why was the Church so important?

2) How was it supported?

3) Why did people give money to the Church?

4) Was the building of a cathedral a simple task? Why?

5) Why were cathedrals decorated with stained windows depicting religious stories?


Watch again the images of cathedrals.

What was, in your opinion, the importance of having a cathedral in a certain place?

7 comentarios:

  1. 1) It was important because was the center of the religion.
    2) It was supported by taxes.
    3) They give money because they believe that if they are helping the church they are helping god, too.
    4) It wasn´t a simple task because church´s in those times were enormous.
    5) they put that because a lot of people didn´t now how to write and read.

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  2. 1) It was important because they belived that if they are good with the god, god would be generouse with people.
    2)People pay taxes to church. People give a part of they work to the church.
    3)People give money because they belived that if they help God, he would help them
    4)It wasn´t a simple task because the churchs are huge.
    5)They have that because people couldnt read or write, so they put the stories in images in glass.

    This was important becase this bring people and make popular the city.

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  3. 1)The church was so important because they believed so much in their god
    2)It was supported by the Pope, and the people gave money to the church too, and by taxes.
    3) Because they believed that if they gave money to the church, they are helping god too.
    4) It wasn't simple, the church were enormous.
    5) Because people can not write or read so they wrote drawings in glass.

    What was, in your opinion, the importance of having a cathedral in a certain place?
    Because it attract attention, so people wanted to go to the church to see what they where

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  4. 1) It was very important because people belived so much in god and they had to have a special place to pray and think of god.
    2) The Church was supported by the people who live in the city that have to pay taxes.
    3) People pay to the church because they want to continue going there and praying for god.
    4) It wasn´t a simple task because churchs were very big and that was difficult to keep them, so people have to pay a lot of money.
    5) Thay put that decorates because people in that time, some of them didn´t know how to read so they put in the church drawings so people can understand well the story of gos and their religion.

    In my opinion it was important because people could learn about the religion and pray frecuently so they could "comunicate" with god from one way.

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  5. 1) Because they had deep religious believes.

    2) Lords and Ladies supports the church.

    3) Because they thought that the generosity would help them.

    4) No, because it was big constructions an architect monuments, and take a lot time to build it.

    5) Because in that time people didn’t know how to read or write.


    In mi opinion, it is in that place because it had to be in a good place for everyone.

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  6. 1) Church was so important because it was one of the most important things of the religion
    2)
    People pay taxes to church.

    3) They give money to the church they thought that if they helped to the church they were helping God
    4)
    No it wasn´t, the church was huge

    5) Because a lot of people didn´t now how to read or write

    It was important because lots of people go there.

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  7. What was, in your opinion, the importance of having a cathedral in a certain place? The more importance of having a cathedral in certain place was that give the place a different view. Now, that place will look richest and it would be an important movement of rich and powerful people. Because it was a an expensive constriction.

    1- In the Middle Ages the church have am important place, it have a high role. They started having some power but in one moment the church was almost as powerful as the kings and took important decisions for the people. The ones that weren’t with the church were bad seen.
    2- The church was supported by the lords and ladies support.
    3- The people give money to the church because was a form of showing respect to then, also they think they were being generous and that would help them.
    4- No because it takes a lot of time to decorated and built it. People spend years making that buildings and decoration them. It was a completed task.
    5- Because they don’t know how to read or write.

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