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Waht are sacraments?
Sacred rites of the Church, required to go to heaven.
Define parish
Local region
What is a liege lord?
A liege lord is a lord whom be owned his first loyalty.
What is the order of society?
Monarch, powerful lord, lords, vassals.
Men can be both lords and vassals.
Define vassals
Pledged service and loyalty to the greater lord.
Define feudalism.
A loosely organized system of rule in which powerful local lords divided their landholdings among lesser lords.
Define papal supremacy
Authority over all secular rulers.
Who is in the middle class?
Merchants, traders, and artisans.
Define tenant farmers
People who paid for their land, or hired farm laborers.
Explain the bill of exchange.
A merchant deposited money with a banker.
A merchant could travel without carrying gold coins.
Name some new business practices.
Many merchants joined a partnership.
There were partnerships.
There were bill of exchange.
Define capital
Money for investment.
Define a charter.
A charter is a written document with the rights and privileges of the town.
How did new towns emerge from trade fairs?
Merchants stayed during the winter because they couldn't move.
This attracted artisans who made goods that the merchants can sell.
Italy and Flanders were the centers of wool trade and had prosperous textile industries.
What happened at trade fairs?
Peasants traded farm goods and animals.
Fairs took place near navigable rivers or where bus trade routes met.
There was entertainment like jugglers, dancing bears.
Peasants had no money to buy fine swords, sugar, and silt.
Feudal rulers, nobles, and wealthy churchmen were the only customers for these.
Explain some trade routes.
They shipped goods to venice on the Adriatic Sea.
In Venice, they loaded goods onto mules and headed up over the Alps and up the Rhine River to Flanders.
In Flanders, traders bought the goods to send on to England and the lands along the Baltic Sea.
Traders paid for the goods with honey, fur, cloth, tin and lead.
Why did they trade?
Peasants needed iron and nobles wanted wool, furs, and spices.
How did they expand production?
Feudal lords pushed peasants to clear forests, drain swamps, and reclaim wasteland for farming.
Adopted 3 field system.
Grain, legumes and fallow.
Legumes = fertility.
What were some new technologies in the 800's?
Iron plows, harness that uses horses, windmills to grind flour.
What was some of the effects of the war?
It created a sense of nationality for France.
Castles and knights dissapeared because their defense could not stand up.
Explain Joan of Arc
She was a 17 year old peasant.
Persuaded him to lead army against English.
Lead French to several victories.
Taken captive by English.
Tried her for witchcraft. Burned her at the stake.
She was later declared a saint.
Turning point figure.
Claimed God was on the French's side.
Who fought in the 100 year war?
England and France.
Name the 3 English victories
Crecy, Poitiers, and Agincourt.
Define toil.
To work extremely hard for.
Define avarice.
Greedy.
What is a tithe?
An annual 10% tax to the church.
Explain 3 problems the church experienced after the black plage.
Flagellance- People beating themselves to repent their sins.
Heiracy- Translating bible into English
Babylonean captivity- Moving
Multiple popes (Schism) - Many people claimed to be the pope.
Who painted "The Last Judgement"?
What does he reveal to us about medieval world view?
John Van Eyke painted the picture. It showed us three levels, Heaven, earth, and Hell.
Heaven was what you wanted to go to, earth was suffering, and hell was horrible
It showed that the medieval world was pessimistic and very focused on the afterlife.
What are three economic effects from the plague?
-Inflation
-Farmers switched to raising sheep, so less product.
-There was a decrease in wages.
-Guilds close.
-Peasants revolt.
What did the vassel provide?
The vassal provided labor, loyalty, military service for 40 days, and build bridges, roads, and farmed land.
Compare and contrast Dante and Pope Innocent III's views on Hell.
Dante had a vivid 9 rings which differed in punishment to each level. Satan was personified. The worst hell lived Satan and was extremely cold and windy.

The pope had a vision of rotting, burning, and being eaten by worms. There was no image of Satan.

Both thought hell was a horrible place.
What was the punishment for breaking the cannon law?
-Excommunication
-No Christian burial
-Interdict (being excluded from the town)
What are four responsibilities for the artisan guild?
To care for the old, when someone died they would care for the widows and children.
They protected workers and quality.
They set hours and they limited masters to only the educated.
Why did the nobles and clergy hate the middle class?
Their power was threatened.
They were against usury.
They weren't really doing anything for their money, they were just buying and marking up the price.
How was the manor self sufficient?
The peasants produced all the food that it needs from fields.
Peasants did all the individual jobs like blacksmiths.
There was a church in the middle.
Food was produced by mills.
Define fallow.
Unused. As in, unused blocks of land.
What are three social impacts of the plague?
-Everyone was for themselves, which led to isolation and families breaking up.
-Wild pleasures.
-Blaming and fearing God.
-Flagellance.
What are some symptoms of the Black Plague?
-Black spots which was bleeding under the skin.
-Growth in neck, armpit, and groin.
-Coughing up blood.
-Unquenchable thirst.
Why was there a global epidemic?
When did the bubonic plague start? (Year)
How was it transmitted?
There was a "Little Ice Age"
Which led to:
Less food, government with no solution.
The black plague started in 1320 in Asia, and because of trades in Italy, it spread quickly.
It was transmitted by fleas and rats.
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