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12. What does your persona know of history/science/medicine/geography?

13. How did people of your culture/time-frame deal with trade?

11. What kind of religion and religious duties would be required of your persona?

Religion-

http://libro.uca.edu/nalle/intro.htm

http://libro.uca.edu/payne1/index.htm

http://libro.uca.edu/nalle/epilogue.htm

http://libro.uca.edu/christian/intro.htm

http://libro.uca.edu/payne1/payne12.htm

http://libro.uca.edu/payne1/payne11.htm

http://libro.uca.edu/students/students3.htm

http://libro.uca.edu/students/intro.htm

http://libro.uca.edu/mendoza/msr6.htm

Religious Duties-

http://libro.uca.edu/nalle/gmc4.htm

http://libro.uca.edu/aristocrats/aristocrats2-2.htm

http://libro.uca.edu/edwards/cordoba6.htm

http://libro.uca.edu/christian/apparitions1.htm

10. What types of wildlife live in your persona's area?

Waiting on help

9. What does your persona eat in a normal day?

Waiting for help

8. What were the eating habits of people of your culture/time-frame?

Waiting on help

7. What type of clothes does your persona wear for special occasions?

http://www.costumes.org/classes/fashiondress/16thCent.htm

6. What type of clothes does your persona normally wear?

http://www.elizabethancostume.net/farthingale/

http://sykesutler.home.att.net/clothes.htm

http://www.elizabethancostume.net/kirtlepat/

http://www.elizabethancostume.net/smockpat/index.html

http://www.elizabethancostume.net/petticoat.html

http://www.elizabethancostume.net/custompat/

http://www.elizabethancostume.net/makekirtle.html

Main Persona Information

noble Family http://libro.uca.edu/students/students1.htm

Catholic faith http://libro.uca.edu/students/students1.htm

5. How did people of your culture/time-frame keep track of days?

The Julian calendar was introduced by Julius Caesar (bust at right) in 45 B.C.E. Author David Duncan says the Julian calendar was born of Caesar's tryst with Cleopatra.

Before the Julian calendar was introduced, priests in the Roman Empire exploited the calendar for political ends, inserting days and even months into the calendar to keep the politicians they favored in office. Tired of the chaos that this undependable system eventually gave rise to, Julius Caesar finally set out to put the long-abused calendar back on track.

It was in common use until the late 1500s, when countries started changing to the Gregorian calendar (section the modern year). However, some countries (for example, Greece and Russia) used it into the early 1900s, and the Orthodox church in Russia still uses it, as do some other Orthodox churches.

In the Julian calendar, the tropical year is approximated as 365 1/4 days = 365.25 days. This gives an error of 1 day in approximately 128 years.

The approximation 365 1/4 is achieved by having 1 leap year every 4 years.

http://www.webexhibits.org/calendars/calendar-christian.html#SECTION00310000000000000000

The calendar used throughout the world today is the Gregorian calendar. It is sometimes called a "Christian" calendar, and additional historic information about this calendar, and its precursor, the Julian calendar, are available in the history of the Cristian calendar section.

The Gregorian calendar is the one commonly used today. It was proposed by Aloysius Lilius, a physician from Naples, and adopted by Pope Gregory XIII (portrait above right) in accordance with instructions from the Council of Trent (1545-1563) to correct for errors in the older Julian Calendar. It was decreed by Pope Gregory XIII in a papal bull, Inter Gravissimas, on February 24, 1582 (shown at below right). This bull is named "Inter Gravissimas" after its first two words.It was

In the Gregorian calendar, the tropical year is approximated as 365 97/400 days = 365.2425 days. Thus it takes approximately 3300 years for the tropical year to shift one day with respect to the Gregorian calendar.

The approximation 365 97/400 is achieved by having 97 leap years every 400 years.

http://www.webexhibits.org/calendars/year-definitions.html

4. How did people of your culture/time-frame tell time?

Clocks

http://www.newyorkcarver.com/inventions4.htm

http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Ancient+ways+of+telling+time

3. How does your persona personally obtain goods (food, drink, clothes, etc.)?

you purchase them from local merchants

http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/129shipwrecks/129facts1.htm

2. What type of money did people of your culture/time-frame use?

1. dabloon, peices of eight.. spanish goooold..

http://libro.uca.edu/aristocrats/note.htm

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1. Would your persona have been literate in your chosen culture/time-frame?

a. YESi. Info
a) Women
a. Naturally, there were exceptions. Santa Teresa de Ávila, able to read the letters of St. Jerome (but only in Spanish) before she was out of her teens, was only one among a small group of female authors during the sixteenth century. And, surprisingly enough, around 1500 a number of women -- one was the daughter of Spain's famous classicist, Antonio Nebrija -- taught at the University of Salamanca, although it is not known whether their appointment was the result of Queen Isabel’s influence -- the presence of a female monarch may have raised the overall position of women in Spanish society -- or whether, in the first wave of Renaissance studies in Spain, Latinists were treated with respect regardless of their sex. Spanish girls in the sixteenth century were also allowed to sit in the same classroom as boys, but this practice met with increasing criticism and gradually disappeared.
b. For reference to other educated Spanish women in the sixteenth century, see Guillermo Furlong, La Cultura Femenina en la Epoca Colonial (Buenos Aires, 1951).
i. http://libro.uca.edu/students/students1.htm
b) Literate/ literacy
a. My estimate is slightly above that of Manuel Fernández Alvarez, La Sociedad Española Del Renacimiento (Salamanca, 1970), who claims that only 10 percent of Spain's population in the sixteenth century was literate (p. 193).
i. http://libro.uca.edu/students/students1.htm

persona research

12. What does your persona know of history/science/medicine/geography?
13. How did people of your culture/time-frame deal with trade?
14. What is your persona’s name? time period is 1560
a. Given Name
i. María
a) http://heraldry.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/spanish/fem-given-alpha.html 
b) http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kvs/heraldry/spanish16/fem-given-alpha.html
c) http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/names/spanish.html
b. Byname
i. Arias
a) http://heraldry.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/spanish/patro-freq.html
b) http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kvs/heraldry/spanish16/bynames-alpha.html#Arias
15. What year was your persona born?
a. 1540
16. What is your persona’s native country?
a. France Antarctique
17. What is your persona’s current country?

18. What are the climates of your persona's native and current countries?
a. Usually tropic
19. What are the terrains of your persona's native and current countries?
a. Mainly tropical, or mountainous
20. In what city/town/barn was your persona born?
a. in Paris, before your family was chosen to settle the colony
21. What city does your persona currently claim as "home"?

22. What are/were your persona’s parents’ names?
a. Felipe and Josephina
23. What are/were your persona’s parents’ occupation(s)?
a. settlers, your father is a blacksmith, your mother died
24. Does your persona have any siblings, and if so, is any still alive?
a. None, that is why not married, your father didn’t want to lose you
25. Is your persona married?
a. No because father didn’t want to lose me
26. What are the marriage customs and typical age of marriage for your persona's culture/time-frame? 
a. around 12-15 usually, you were kept later to care for your aging father
b. As such you have never been married and have no children.
27. What type of building does your persona currently live in?
a. Boat or tent
28. With whom does your persona live?
a. Captain Asher and the Crew of the éternelle soif
29. Are there members of your persona's household that are not related to your persons 
  (servants/retainers, wards/fosterlings, guests, etc.)?
a. Mainly captain Asher and crew there isn’t really a household. more a crew, and then the shop I am hired out to protect currently
30. Were pets kept during your persona’s culture/time-frame? If so, what kind, if any, does your persona have?
a. Yes and mostly hunting dogs
31. What is your persona’s occupation? 
a. Wench
32. How old is your persona?
a. 20
33. How long do people like your persona tend to live?
a. 30s
34. What is your persona’s ethnicity?
a. French
35. Who is your persona’s current employer?
a. Captain Asher
36. Would your persona have been literate in your chosen culture/time-frame?
24. What level of education does your persona have?
25. Where was your persona educated? 
26. What languages does your persona speak?
27. What units of measure were used by your persona’s culture/time-frame?
28. What type of money did people of your persona’s culture/time-frame use?
29. What kind of legal system exists in your persona’s culture/time-frame, and who make the laws?
30. What is the status of women among your persona’s culture/time-frame, and can they own property
  or conduct business?
31. What major events have occurred during your persona’s lifetime? 
  (Natural catastrophes, wars, revolutions, discoveries, etc.?)
32. Does your persona fight? If so, where did your persona learn to fight? 
33 What type of armour and weapons were used by fighters in your persona’s culture/time-frame? 
  And how were such obtained?
34. List your persona’s skills and hobbies. For each, write down where your persona learned them. 
35. What "class" is your persona? (I.e., royalty, nobility, merchant, middle, artisan, slave, etc.) 
36. How widely has your persona traveled? 
37. In what capacity has your persona traveled? (I.e., military, sailor, rich person’s hobby, etc.) 
38. Who is your persona’s current monarch? 
39. Who is the current Pope during your persona time? 
40. What religion is your persona? 
41. What kind of religious duties would be required of your persona?
42. How did people of your persona’s culture/time-frame deal with trade?
43. With respect to international relations, does your persona favor colonization, isolationism, conquest/conversion,
  open trade, etc.? 
44. How does your persona personally obtain goods (food, drink, clothes, etc.)?
45. How did people of your persona’s culture/time-frame tell time?
46. How did people of your persona’s culture/time-frame keep track of days?
47. What type of clothes does your persona normally wear?
48. What type of clothes does your persona wear for special occasions?
49. Are there any (sumptuary) laws restricting what your persona can wear?
50. What does your persona eat in a normal day?
51. How is food prepared and preserved in your persona’s culture/time-frame?
52. What spices were available to your persona and how expensive were they?
53. What were the eating habits of people of your persona’s culture/time-frame?
54. What are the cleaning/bathing habits of your persona’s culture/time-frame?
55. What types of wildlife live in your persona's area?
56. Name your persona’s favorite musicians/artists/dances. 
57. What political figure/party/movement does your persona support? 
58. Who is the most significant thinker of your persona’s time? 
59. What does your persona consider to be the greatest social problem their country? 
60. What is most likely to cause your persona’s death? 
61. What type of medical aid is available in your persona’s culture/time-frame, and does your persona have access to it?
62. List at least three of your persona’s goals in life. (Learn to write, become apprenticed to a craftsman, visit the "big city",
  take over the family business, go to the Holy Land, usurp the crown, etc.) 
63. What does your persona know of history/science/medicine/geography?
64. What’s the most striking scientific achievement of which your persona is aware? 
65. Does your persona consider the Earth to be flat, round, or hollow? 
66. Does your persona believe that the Earth revolves around the Sun, or vice-versa? 
67. What does your persona consider to be the causes of criminal behavior? 
68. What does your persona consider to be the true measure of a man? 
69. Who has most influenced your persona’s thoughts on these questions? 
70. Did your persona’s culture/time-frame have heraldry?
SCORING
2 - 20 points § You have an introductory persona story.
22 - 40 points § You have a basic persona story.
42 - 60 points § You have a solid persona story.
62 - 80 points § You have an advanced persona story.
82 - 100 points § You have a very advanced persona story.
102 - 120 points § You have an extremely advanced persona story.
122 - 140 points § You have a persona story with great insights into the medieval mindset.


Area/Time of Birth 
Language Spoken 
Occupation 
Craft Skills 
Behavior/Manners 
Pursuits/Hobbies 
Weapons Skills 
Travels 
Significant Events During Life (Both historical and personal) 
Area/Time of Death