Thursday, January 26, 2012

Notes...

Bathing -
1. People bathed once a month.
2. People wore the same clothes every day. They had the same outfit.
3. They used lavender flowers and mint in the water for cleaning. These were used to keep fleas away because they had a lot of animals and straw in their houses.

Chairman -
1. The word chairman comes from the middle ages where a house had only one chair for the exclusive use of the man of the family.

Sleeping -
1. At night time people would pile onto a mattress. (a lump of straw on the floor) The whole family slept in the same bed. If an animal was friendly, they could sleep in the bed, to keep you warm of course.

Troubadours -
1. They traveled from town to town, singing for their supper.
2. His songs were often of love, or the glory of kings.
3. Troubadours would strum a lute or guitar.

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