Excerpt: ...6. Collect pictures of English and European cathedrals. Find pictures of churches in America which resemble them. REVIEW How ancient civilization was preserved 1. What ruined so many ancient cities? 2. Who tried to preserve the memory of what the Greeks and the Romans had done? 3. What language did the churchmen continue to use? 4. How did the missionaries help? 5. How did Alfred teach the English some of the things the Romans had known? 6. What did the Arabs teach the Christians which the Greeks had known? 7. ...
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Excerpt: ...6. Collect pictures of English and European cathedrals. Find pictures of churches in America which resemble them. REVIEW How ancient civilization was preserved 1. What ruined so many ancient cities? 2. Who tried to preserve the memory of what the Greeks and the Romans had done? 3. What language did the churchmen continue to use? 4. How did the missionaries help? 5. How did Alfred teach the English some of the things the Romans had known? 6. What did the Arabs teach the Christians which the Greeks had known? 7. What was studied at Bologna? How did the universities help in preserving the ancient knowledge? 8. What did Petrarch do to find lost books? What did other men of Petrarch's time do? 9. What help came from the invention of printing? 10. From what besides books did the men of the Renaissance learn about the Greeks and the Romans? HUSBANDMAN AND COUNTRY WOMAN OF FIFTEENTH CENTURY CHAPTER XIII TRADERS, TRAVELERS, AND EXPLORERS IN THE LATER MIDDLE AGES The Perils of Traders. There was a time in the Middle Ages when merchants scarcely dared to travel from one town to another for fear of being plundered by some robber lord or common thief. If they traveled by sea they might also be attacked by robbers. Some of these robbers, like the Northmen, came from afar, but others were ordinary sailors who put out from near-by ports when there seemed nothing better to do. This state of things gradually changed. The kings or great lords succeeded in protecting merchants on land, and the merchants armed vessels of their own to drive the pirates from the sea. As trade grew greater the towns became richer and stronger and the robbers and pirates fewer, so that the number of merchant ships increased rapidly and long voyages were attempted. Fairs. At first trade was carried on at great fairs, held in places convenient for the merchants of England and western Europe. The fairs lasted about six weeks, and one fair followed another. As soon as the first was over the...
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