The price of loyalty

The price of loyalty:

The holy town of Santiago de Compostela is just recovering from a long and cruel civil war between the bishop, the queen and the citizens of the town. Become a true peacemaker, the only person who will bring peace and prosperity back to Compostela, and win the glory and the reward of your lieges.

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Colegio Josefinas La Asunción. Cáceres, 2022

Choose your liege.

the bishop

the queen

the stonemason

I am queen Urraca I, proud daughter of the mighty Alfonso VI, and queen of the kingdoms of Galicia León and Castille. In spite of riots, civil wars and intrigues, I came to Compostela to show my power and demand the loyalty of my vassals, the arrogant bishop Gelmirez and the stubborn citizens of this town. I need peace desperately, in order to solve other issues that need my atention in other places of my vast kingdom. Help me, and you will be conveniently rewarded! Soy la reina Urraca, hija de Alfonso VI y reina de Galicia y de León. A pesar de las muchas intrigas, he venido a marcar mi poder en Compostela, contra los burgueses y el altivo obispo Gelmirez. Necesito la paz en mis reinos y reconciliarme con mis enemigos, ¡Ayúdame y serás recompensada con creces!

Soy el obispo Gelmírez, señor de Santiago y fiel servidor de la tumba de nuestro apostol Santiago. Una caterdral como la nuestra necesita muchos bienes y servicios para servir a Dios y al apostol. Ahora que los burgueses han sido derrotados, necesito reconciliarme con la reina y con los ciudadanos de Santiago con urgencia. Si me sirves bien, te convertirás en el regente de mi palacio en mis tiempos de ausencia, y podrás disfrutar de él cuanto gustes...

Soy el maestro Esteban, venido de las tierras del este. He creado el Pórtico de las Platerías, mi obra cumbre. Sin embargo, los incendios de la ciudad y las malicias de mis canteros han hecho que tenga que restaurar con urgencia el pórtico. ¡Sírveme, y yo te ayudaré a convertirte en un maestro con tu propia cuadrilla de canteros y te confiaré todos los secretos para labrar la piedra que yo atesoro!

Santiago de Compostela,1117

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These are the rules you must follow: 1. At the beginning, three shells are given to each team. They can use the shells to exchange the answer from complex tasks, or when they give a mistaken answer in any of the required tasks. Beware, if you are running out of shells, and you are mistaken in some of the tasks, you will be commited to fulfill more tasks from other teams. 2. Teams can work together in a single task or can be divided to accomplish two tasks at the same time, but never more than two. 3. Every time they finish a task, outputs or anwers will be given to the teacher. The teacher will decide whether the answer is the right one or it is not. In case it is wrong, he will take a shell, so don't be in a rush. 4. You have to fulfill nine task. With every task you complete, you'll get a letter. These letters will be part of a password that will allow you to finish the game and obtain your reward.

Congratulations!

YOU HAVE BEEN A GOOD SERVANTand your lords are VERY satisfied with your labours.ask the master for your candies bag and enjoy them.

Restart the game

You should go to the laboraty and make a research by your own, checking the rocks that you can find there.

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The oath of fealty usually took place after the act of homage, when, by the symbolic act of kneeling before the lord and placing his hands between the hands of the lord, the vassal became the "man" of the lord. Usually, the lord also promised to provide for the vassal in some form, either through the granting of a fief or by some other manner of support. Typically, the oath took place upon a religious object such as a Bible or saint's relic, often contained within an altar, thus binding the oath-taker before God. (search more info in the wikipedia: oath of fealty, homage ceremony)

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Wilhem the conqueror, lord of Normandy

King Harold, Saxon king of England, in an oath of fealty to the lord of Normandy. Breaking the oath will mean the invasion of England by the Normans in 1066

Which of these plants were unknown in Medieval Europe?

volveral itinerario

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5hnCXEa-vI

Monks of Cluny were called "black monks" because of their habits. They were extremely powerful in the 11th and 12th century, and popes and bishops were members of the order.

Podéis tomar como ejemplos, al igual que hizo Cristina de Pisán, a mujeres famosas de la antigüedad: Safo, Hipatia, la reina Cleopatra, la Virgen María, la reina de las Amazonas, para refutar cada una de las afirmaciones. Por ejemplo: “Es mentira que las mujeres no puedan reinar, puesto que ha habido en épocas antiguas grandes reinas como Cleopatra o Livia, mujer de Augusto, que sí fueron grandes gobernantes. Más bien, las damas no han gobernado no por su incompetencia, sino porque se les ha dado la posibilidad de gobernar.”Pedid el libro en la biblioteca del colegio para más información, de la que es considerada una de las primeras luchadoras por la dignidad de la mujer en la historia.

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Mission 1

ESCRIBE UNTÍTULO AQUÍ

while feudal lords are fighting each other, clergy and monks havE created a new law, the god's truce or "paz de dios"god's wills are the only way for priests to keep the peace and PUT the swords of knights AWAY. AND MEANWHILE, THE CLUNY MONKS, THE "BLACK MONKS", WILL BECOME A REAL POWER IN THE SHADOW ACROSS ALL EUROPE. SWIFTLY THE LORDS WILL RAISE AGAIN THEIR SWORDS, BUT NOW THEY WILL HAVE A NEW ENEMY. THEY WILL FIGHT IN THE SOUTH OF EUROPE, AGAINST THE MUSLIMS, IN AL-ANDALUS, ENCOURAGING THE RECONQUEST IN CASTILLE, IN THE SOUTH OF ITALY, AND FAR AWAY, IN CONSTANTINOPLE AND THE HOLY CITY OF JERUSALEM. IT IS THE AGE OF THE CRUSADES.

The clergy was the other privileged estate, made up of monks, priests and bishops. There were enormous differences between them. A bishop like Gelmírez could behave like a great nobleman and went to battle like noble warriors did. The monks lived apart in their monasteries, although not completly isolated from the world. And most of priests usually shared the same hard life of peasantry.

The nobility was the military estate. They were owners of the land, enjoyed legal privileges and didn't pay taxes. They were subject by vassalage to the feudal king, like Queen Urraca. However, many times they were not very faithful to their oath and rebelled against the monarchs, as happened many times in the case of the Castilian queen herself.

The peasantry included the great part of the European population. They were subject to nobles and clerics, and lacked any legal rights. They were subjected to strong fiscal pressure from the feudal lords in exchange for military protection. They also paid taxes (the tenth) to the church. In the 11th century, with the reconstruction of old towns, a new group, the bourgeosie, will join this estate: merchants, craftsmen and bankers. In Queen Urraca's period, this will be the first time where they showed their power, based on material wealth and money.

Medieval dance - Josefinas "La Asunción"

This process is very primitive. In the Middle Ages, potter's wheel are extended everywhere. However, it could happen that in moments of great need, pottery could be hand by hand, as in the Neolithic.

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intentaré ser breve con el pergamino que dispongo, pero tú CONOCES BIEN los tiempos en los que vives. la ley del más fuerte se impone bajo la sombra de pactos feudales. los nobles abusan de los campesinos y los normandos, antiguos vikingos, son los más ávidos de poder y riqueza de todos ellos, fundando reinos e imponiendo su ley sobre EL MUNDO ENTERO... Y sin embargo, algo está cambiando en occidente...

¡SANGRE Y FUEGO!

In 1099 Jerusalem was taken to the Muslims, and the age of Crusades began. In 1117 there are little kingdoms in Jerusalem, Antioquia and Edesa, but the Muslim are preparing for war, and things won't be easy in the following years.

Reino de Castilla Ruled by Alfonso VIII in war against the Muslims.

After the battle of Hastings in 1066, the Normans defeated the last saxon king Harold and created a new kingdom under the Willhem the Conqueror. Nowadays Henry II is the new king, holding war against the kings of France to keep his old domains and manors in Normandy, and lots of tales and deeds are told about his courage and his cruelty.

Paris is becoming the most important city of all Europe, under the dinasty of the Capets.

Queen Urraca I is the ruler of the kingdom of Leon, after the death of her father, Alfonso VI. Civil wars and revolts are common in these rush years.

Los almohades han impuesto su ley sobre África y Al-Ándalus, cortando en seco la expansión de los reinos cristianos del norte.

Rome is the city of popes. Little remains from the old days of glory, except ruins everywhere you look around, but new churches are being built, and the raising power of the popes is giving the city a new golden age.

Constantinople is capital of the Bizantyne empire, and still the most populated city in all Europe. Wealth and power are in this empire, even though it is continuously threated by the Muslims in the east.

The Normans raided and conquered Sicily in 1091 against Byzantines and Muslims, and creating a new flourishing county with the king Roger I.

This is the old land of Vikings, but now under Christian faith, and these old pagans becoming the most intrepid travellers of this age. Their ships are travelling from Greenland to the Black sea, and founding new kingdoms everywhere their ships arrive.

The book of Kells: Irish handwriting from the Early Middle Age (8th century) Printing press were not discovered in Europe till the 15th century (Chinese discovered almost five hundred years earlier). Therefore, books had to be written by hand. Scriptoriums of monasteries and cathedral schools were the only places where people had the knowledge and enough resources to carry out this activity. They were very expensive and richly illustrated by monks, specially, initial and capital letters, and this is your task. Take one of this model and reproduce it in your own notebook, with the right size and richness of colour.

Norman plough: one of the most important innovations in the 11th and 12th century. Stronger than the Roman plough, it could open and work the soil easier and deeper than the old ploughs.

El botafumeiro es el nombre gallego para hablar del incensario. Como los peregrinos dormían en la catedral, el olor era pestilente y el cabildo de la catedral determinó construir un gran incensario que permitiese hacer un poco más respirable el aire de la catedral.

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EUROPA AT THE BEGINNING OFTHE 12TH CENTURY

I WILL TRY TO BE SHORT IN MY WORDS, BUT YOU KNOW VERY WELL THE TIMES WE ARE LIVING... THE LAW OF THE STRONGEST PREVAILS UNDER THE FEUDAL HOMAGE. NOBILITY OPRESS THE PEASANTS, ANDTHE NORMANS, ANCIENT VIKINGS, ARE THE WORST OF ALL, LOOKING FOR WEALTH AND POWER EVERYWHERE THEY GO, FOUNDING NEW KINGDOMS FROM ENGLAND TO SICILY. HOWEVER, SOMETHING IS CHANGING IN WEST EUROPE..

BLOOD AND FIRE!

Reino de Castilla Ruled by Alfonso VIII in war against the Muslims.

the kingdom of England is ruled by the Normans. Henry I is the new king, holding war against the kings of France.

Paris is becoming the most important city of all Europe, under the dinasty of the Capets.

Queen Urraca I is the ruler of the kingdom of Leon, after the death of her father, Alfonso VI. Civil wars and revolts are common in these rush years.

Los almohades han impuesto su ley sobre África y Al-Ándalus, cortando en seco la expansión de los reinos cristianos del norte.

In Rome, powerful Popes are fighting against the German Emperor to get the control of the Christian church in all Europe. A few decades earlier, Gregory VII humiliated the proud emperor Henry IV, making him to wear as a beggar in front of the walls of the city.

Mission 1

ESCRIBE UNTÍTULO AQUÍ

while feudal lords are fighting each other, clergy and monks havE created a new law, the god's truce or "paz de dios"god's wills are the only way for priests to keep the peace and PUT the swords of knights AWAY. AND MEANWHILE, THE CLUNY MONKS, THE "BLACK MONKS", WILL BECOME A REAL POWER IN THE SHADOW ACROSS ALL EUROPE. SWIFTLY THE LORDS WILL RAISE AGAIN THEIR SWORDS, BUT NOW THEY WILL HAVE A NEW ENEMY. THEY WILL FIGHT IN THE SOUTH OF EUROPE, AGAINST THE MUSLIMS, IN AL-ANDALUS, ENCOURAGING THE RECONQUEST IN CASTILLE, IN THE SOUTH OF ITALY, AND FAR AWAY, IN CONSTANTINOPLE AND THE HOLY CITY OF JERUSALEM. IT IS THE AGE OF THE CRUSADES.

AND MEANWHILE, EUROPE IS CHANGING. VILLAGES ARE GROWING, MORE FIELDS ARE CULTIVATED, AND WITH THEM, TRADE, MONEY AND THE OLD ROMAN CITIES ARE RESTORED. AND WITH THEM, THE ART, THE CULTURE, AND RELIGIOUS PIETY. PILGRIMAGEs TO HOLY PLACES BECOME MORE AND MORE COMMON. ROMA, JERUSALÉN AND SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA ARE THE FINAL DESTINATION OF THOUSANDS OF PILGRIMS COMING FROM EVERY CORNER OF THE CHRISTIAN WORLD.

Romanesque becomes the first international artistical style in Europe, between the 11th and beginning of the 13th century. Roman arches, barrel vaults, thcik walls, small windows and buttresess are their main characteristics in the architecture.

ONE TOWN, LOCATED AT THE VERY END OF WEST EUROPE, BECOMES THE FINAL REWARD FOR THESE FAITHFUL PILGRIMS: SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA.AROUND THE APOSTLE SANTIAGO TOMB, A HUGE CATHEDRAL IS BUILT AT THE END OF THE 11th century, and thousands of travellers and pilgrims pray everyday for their soul's salVATION and the forgiveness of their sins...

Built at the end of the 12th century by Maestro Mateo

Built at the beginning of the 12th century by Maestro Esteban and Maestro de Platerías. It was restored again after the urban revolution. It is a good example of the classic Romanesque facade.

PILGRIMAGE BRINGS WEALTH AND POWER TO THE TOWN, AND GREED AND LUST ARISE IN THE HEARTHS OF MEN. BISHOP GELMIREZ WILL TAKE FOR HIMSELF a GOOD AMOUNT OF THIS WEALTH, CREATING PRIVILEGES, DONATIONS AND NEW TAXES FOR HIMSELF. THE BOURGEOISE, EXHAUSTED BY HIS IRON FIST, RAISED AGAISNT HIM AND BEGAN A REVOLT, SIEGING AND BURNING THE CATHEDRAL. THEY APPEALED TO QUEEN URRACA. BUT THE QUEEN DECIDED TO DEFEND THE BISHOP'S SIDE. FIGHTs are everywhere, AMONG ALL SIDES.

WHEN THE UPRISING IS SUFFOCATED, THE BISHOP, THE QUEEN AND THE CITIZENS DECIDED TO SIGN A TREATY OF PEACE AND RESTORE THE BURNT CATHEDRAL. AND THIS IS WHERE YOUR MISSION STARTS, PROTECTING THE NEW PEACE AND SUPPORTING YOUR LIEGE'S INTEREST...

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The cathedral was sieged and put on fire by the rioters in 1116. Bishop Gelmirez and queen Urraca almost die in the fight and following confusion. Even the queen suffered a wound from a stone thrown by the citizens of Santiago.

The rebels were mainly old friends of the bishop Gelmirez, but now eager of more economic power, and belonging to the richest members of the patrician bourgueoisie from Compostela. During one whole year they had the control of the town, till the arrival of queen Urraca.

DONE!