Housing+and+Architecture

Essential Questions: How did people live in the Medieval period, both during the Roman occupation and afterwards? Describe the advances in technology and protection the Romans built in comparison to the Anglo-Saxon period after the Romans left. What were homes made of? Describe the various structures that could be found in a Medieval town.

For medieval people, bigger houses meant wealthier people. Bigger houses where more protection and that was important since the weather was very rough. The houses would be very hot in summer and very cold in winter. These houses where made out of sticks,straw,and mud. Many of this did not survived due to age. There were houses that where made out of brick those are the ones that survived but there where way to expensive they had tiles on the roof and glass windows. Way to expensive for medival period. The heavy plough, is one of the first inventions/advances on technology there was at the time. It was use to tear up the ground to leave seeds and later on grow corn or other goods (harvesting)

whippletree aso knows as ( swing bars, splinter bars, sweengletrees) is a simple pice of wood attached to a cart, then the horse harness attaches to the whippletree, makes turns for carts more flexable.