The World Building Webquest
Introduction

Task

Maps

Castles

Medieval Towns & Villages

Medieval Cultures

Creatures

Magic

Conclusion

Adults Page

Image Credits

Medieval Cultures

The Rich and Colorful Tapestry of Life...

To populate your world, you will need to create several cultures. You will explore real medieval cultures, and use those cultures as a basis or source of ideas for the cultures you create in your world.

What You Need To Do:

  • Choose several medieval cultures to explore, using the web sites listed below.
  • Once you have found a culture that interests you, search for more resources on that culture within the web sites listed on this page. You may also want to search the web for more resources on the cultures you have chosen, after you exhaust the resources here.
  • Use what you have learned as a starting point for creating your own cultures to populate your world.
  • Write a description of each culture you develop, noting what cultures you have drawn on in developing each culture.
  • Draw a member of the culture, in traditional costume.

Each Culture You Develop Will Need:

  • Language
  • Names of People and Places
  • Cultural Traditions
  • Religion and Beliefs
  • History (just the most important events; this can be written in the form of a timeline)
  • Myths (you don't have to write them all, but you should think about what the plots of some of the common mythological stories told by the group are)
  • Traditional Clothing
  • Traditional Foods
  • Geographical Areas that the culture is associated with
  • Any defining physical characteristics

Resources:

Medieval Clothing / Traditional Costume

Mythology

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