Middle Ages Editorial:Knights to become Nobles( By Aamir Waudiwala)
It is time for the knights to become more of a higher power: like an noble. In the social pyramid, knights were under nobles; as a result they still have more power than the slaves. Training for knights began at age seven.
Knights were the ones that were the security guards of nobles. Knighthood was extremely challenging compared to nobility because nobles were passed down from generation to generation. The steps of knighthood were: to have the proper connection means that they must have the best physical strength. Next, the childrens up to age seven were taught by their parents basic teaching. Then, the novice knights were then were to fight until they are the best. Finally, they were crowned knighthood.
Many of the knights do not want to fight; they only want to become the best at knights so they become nobles to have more power than nights have. So knights should become nobles.
Middle Ages Interview Q&A By:Aamir Waudiwala
In the Middle Ages, corporal punishment was very common. Their torturing and capital punishment was slow and painful. Examples of torturing were the breaking wheel, buried alive and embalming. During the Middle Ages majority of the people believed in witchcraft and due to witchcraft thats why they had a lot of torturing. Only a few countries today use torturing as a punishment.
Question: Where do the torturing and or execution takes place?
Answer: The torturing usually took place in the town square so all the townsmen would see it.
Question: Where did you get all these punishments from?
Answer: Some of the ideas we wanted to make the laws extremely strict.
Question: Were the courts and judges fair?
Answer: The judges and courts were bias for example if a poor person would steal and a higher classes( nobles, dukes, bishops etc) will be free and the low classes were publicly humiliated. Even the most innocent had to hide.
Question: If someone stole what will their punishment be?
Answer: The persons right hand will be cut of.
Question: In your opinion what are the two most brutal punishments?
Answer: If someone killed someone they will get a noose around their neck and be hung inside a cage everyone will watch it. The second most brutal is when they cut people before they get executed so it will be extremely painful.
Question: Who is at the execution?
Answer: The king, queen and the high classes and the town and the king will choose if the person will get killed
Question: Who will rarely get executed?
Nobles and other high classes on extreme cases if you would do treason back then treason would be a severe punishment.
Black Death Article By Aamir Waudiwala
The Black Death is a bubonic plague. From AD 1348- 1350 ,75 million- 200 million people died due to the illness. It is believed that rats with fleas caused the plague. 7,500 people died every day from the plague(1348 to 1350 AD). The plague continued to reappear every few years. The plague was the “Black Death” because the main symptom was the swelling was black because it was infected.
The best place to be safe is in Poland they got the plague 10 to 20 years later; in the 1360s - 1370s AD. During the Middle Ages the plague was not curable. Fortunately today antibiotics save the lives from the plague. Back then there were no proper sanitations and the rats and mice population skyrocketed.
It took 150 years for the population of Europe to recover. The plague cure was discovered in the 1890s. Majority of people died within getting the plague was two to four days. The main symptoms were: bleeding in the lungs,muscle pains and the victim vomits a lot.
Social Classes By: Aamir Waudiwala
This is the medieval social pyramid
During the Middle Ages, there were many classes from kings the highest power to peasants(with little to no power). The nobles and other higher classes had a greater amount of food; on the other hand lower classes had a small portion of food. The pope had more power than the king. Nobles started to work at dawn time. Nobles had to defend the kings and the higher classes even though they are a level beneath the king. They had to provide money for their family. Nobility can be passed down to generation to generation; or people can be selected. Nobles had to be good at fighting in wars and to be the best at using the weapons properly.
The highest power of the pyramid were the Pope and Church were the religious officials. The second highest power was the king he ruled all the land. The third power was the nobles had to pay taxes to the king and other duties he had. Knights and vassals were fighters and protected the kings, nobles and popes. Merchants were the sellers, Farmers had to provide food to people and craftsmen made the tools and supplies. The bottom of the pyramid were the surfs: extremely poor people and serfs were slaves.
During the Middle Ages, there were many classes from kings the highest power to peasants(with little to no power). The nobles and other higher classes had a greater amount of food; on the other hand lower classes had a small portion of food. The pope had more power than the king. Nobles started to work at dawn time. Nobles had to defend the kings and the higher classes even though they are a level beneath the king. They had to provide money for their family. Nobility can be passed down to generation to generation; or people can be selected. Nobles had to be good at fighting in wars and to be the best at using the weapons properly.
The highest power of the pyramid were the Pope and Church were the religious officials. The second highest power was the king he ruled all the land. The third power was the nobles had to pay taxes to the king and other duties he had. Knights and vassals were fighters and protected the kings, nobles and popes. Merchants were the sellers, Farmers had to provide food to people and craftsmen made the tools and supplies. The bottom of the pyramid were the surfs: extremely poor people and serfs were slaves. During the Middle Ages, there were many classes from kings the highest power to peasants(with little to no power). The nobles and other higher classes had a greater amount of food; on the other hand lower classes had a small portion of food. The pope had more power than the king. Nobles started to work at dawn time. Nobles had to defend the kings and the higher classes even though they are a level beneath the king. They had to provide money for their family. Nobility can be passed down to generation to generation; or people can be selected. Nobles had to be good at fighting in wars and to be the best at using the weapons properly.
The highest power of the pyramid were the Pope and Church were the religious officials. The second highest power was the king he ruled all the land. The third power was the nobles had to pay taxes to the king and other duties he had. Knights and vassals were fighters and protected the kings, nobles and popes. Merchants were the sellers, Farmers had to provide food to people and craftsmen made the tools and supplies. The bottom of the pyramid were the surfs: extremely poor people and serfs were slaves.