during the Middle Ages, when great sailing ships were setting off to discover new land, a Christmas Box was placed by a priest(神父) on each ship. Those sailors who wanted to ensure a safe return would drop money into the box, It was sealed up and kept on board until the ship came ...
1During the Middle Ages, European farmers were at the mercy of insects that were destroying their crops. They prayed to Virgin Mary for help. The story goes that soon after the ladybugs came, ate the insects and saved the crops!The colorful beetles were named “The Beetles of Our Lady” ...
The “Middle Ages” refers to a duration of 1,000 years, stretching from the fall of Rome in the 5th century to the Italian renaissance in the 15th. Traditionally, the term refers specifically to Europe. And there are many stories, which are more fiction than reality, about the Europe of...
The Middle Ages 分裂时期西罗马帝国灭亡后，许多蛮族王国侵入,在罗马的版图渐渐分裂成十个王国:：1.东哥特王国(意大利东北部)（Ostrogoth）2.法兰克王国(后分裂成法兰西、意大利、德意志)3.布根地（勃艮第）王国(瑞士)(Bourgogne）4.西哥特王国(西班牙)（Visigoth）5.苏维王国(葡萄牙)（又作苏维汇，Suebi或Suevi...
During the Middle Ages,the purpose of Western art was to teach people aboutChristianity③. Thus,artists were not interested in paintingrealistic④scenes⑤. Theirworks⑥were oftenprimitive⑦andtwo dimensional⑧,and the maincharacters⑨were often made much larger than everyone else to show their importa...
【题目】 During the Middle Ages, there wasan annual celebration T he poets came fromfar and wide to compete(1)_poetry competition .One year , a very handsome young man(2)__(win) the game. He refused to give his name , (3)__his gentle manners made him a favorite and he(4)__ ...
Middle Ages – Ordeal by Fire The accused had to pick up a red hot iron bar and hold it while they walked three or four paces. Their hand was then bandaged. After three days they had to return to the court where the bandages were removed. If the wound was beginning to heal they wer...
That's the sort of writing that came out of students at Brisas Elementary School in Chandler, Arizona, when the fourth- and fifth-grade students in Ruth Sunda's gifted resource language arts class wrote aboutLife in the Middle Ages.
In the Late Middle Ages, almost everyone in western Europe was a Christian and a member of Christian church. Christianity took the lead in politics, law, art, and learning for hundreds of years. Middle Ages is also called “Dark Ages”, because after Uncivilized Germanics conque 3、red the...
▪TheEuropeanMiddleAgeslastedfromthe falloftheWesternRomanEmpirein476untiltheRenaissancebeganinthemiddleofthe14thcentury.2 PartTwoSociallife Manor:thecentreofmedievallifeunderfeudalism.Bythetwelfthcenturymanorhousesweremadeofstoneanddesignedasfortresses.Theycametobecalledcastles.3 Church:▪After1054,theChurchwas...