5th Grade

Middleage Webquest 1

Middleage Webquest 2

1. What is feudalism? is the structure of their politics. It began in the 9^th century.

2. What is a guild?

3. The glossary

4. Medieval games

5. Medieval food - desserts: custards, apple pies, brownies, chocolate, baked apples, pastries, any good stuff!!

6. Vassals

7. Oath of fealty is the promise of faithful service to the lord

8. Moats

9. Scutage

10 chamberlain

11. Medical Information: cures: surgery, bloodletting, herbs, medicines

breast cancer - lump

cataracts - can't see well

scrofula - also known as tuberculosis - swellings in neck or cough if involving glands in the lungs

Performed as a last resort, surgery was known to be successful in cases of breast cancer, fistula, hemorrhoids, gangrene, and cataracts, as well as tuberculosis of the lymph glands in the neck (scrofula). The most common form of surgery was bloodletting; it was meant to restore the balance of fluids in the body. Some of the potions used to relieve pain or induce sleep during the surgery were themselves potentially lethal. One of these consisted of lettuce, gall from a castrated boar, briony, opium, henbane, and hemlock juice--the hemlock juice could easily have caused death. Remedies were often herbal in nature, but also included ground earthworms, urine, and animal excrement. Many medieval medical manuscripts contained recipes for remedies that called for hundreds of therapeutic substances--the notion that every substance in nature held some sort of power accounts for the enormous variety of substances.

12. Alms

13. All about the middle ages

14. More on middle ages

15. Positions in the middle ages and cottars

16. Clothing