Textbook Notes p. 1-14

• zitgeist- the spirit of a time
• fighting between groups is constant
• people wonder where they come from and look toward religion
• we choose people to be in charge of everything and call them kings
• land is often confiscated
• new ways of ordering the social hierarchy and running a civilization
• conflicts with the church
• people began to kill each other for power
• laws begin to take effect in some civilizations
• the social order changes when people are unhappy
• many killed by the plague
• heroic and elegant poetry
• authors are often unknown
• dramas emerged in Middle Ages
• printing more books with the printing press
• Chaucer observed all kinds of people
• Romances became popular in medieval times
• the English language was derived from all the groups of people that invaded England and the languages that they spoke