Vocabulary
What is the definition of a serf?
An agricultural (farm) labourer who under the feudal system could not leave the manor without their lords permission.
What is a Freemen?
A peasant who rented land from the lord or worked for pay, slightly higher than a serf.
What is the Order of the Hierarchy from the bottom to the top?
peasants, knights, nobles/lords, king
What was the name of the plague that killed half the people in Europe?
The Black Death (Black Plague)
The pyramid used to show the feudal hierarchy of medieval Europe indicates that society in the middle ages was based upon what?
Ranking people according to their level on the hierarchy.
What is a peasant?
Someone of low status at the bottom of the hierarchy who rents a small piece of rural land.
What are Sumptuary Laws?
Rules that control spending on items such as clothing, food, furniture. Historically used to prevent luxury and extravagance to reinforce the hierarchy.
True or False: Peasants were illiterate and uneducated and the manor was usually the limit of their life experience?
True.
The Peasant's Revolt began in 1337 and was the result of what?
The Hundred Years War (between England and France) and The devestation to the countryside resulting in famine and higher taxes.
True or False: In the middle ages many people thought that the plague had been sent by God as a punishment?
True
What is a hierarchy?
What is Allegiance?
Loyalty or commitment to a superior (noble/Lord) or a group/cause (Church)
True or False: Feudalism was based on land, loyalty and duty?
True.
Every group in the church hierarchy had the duty to be obedient to the group above it and provide services to the group below. Who was the most powerful?
The Pope
Is the following statement consistent or inconsistent with the worldview of the Middle ages: All people should have rights and opportunities?
Inconsistent
What is Feudalism?
The system during the Renaissance (medieval Europe) in which people were ranked.
What are Manors?
A large country estate, controlled by a Lord, on which land was rented by tenants (peasants).
What do we call a person who learned a trade or joined a guild?
Journeyman
Attitudes changed towards the church during the Black Death and the Hundred Years War for what reason?
Their land ownership and the collection of the tithe made the church very wealthy while every was suffering.
Is the following statement consistent or inconsistent with the WorldView of the middle ages: Epidemics and disasters are punishments from God?
Consistent
What is a Tithe?
A tax paid to the Church. It was believed the more money you paid, the greater your chances of going to heaven.
What is a Monastery?
A building or buildings occupied by a community of monks living under religious vows.
What was the purpose of Guilds? (3 things)
To set prices, control quality of goods and determine who was allowed to work in that craft as a trainee or apprentice.
What is it called when nobles and Knights take an oathe for the king?
Allegiance
Life for serfs living under the manorial system in the medieval period would have been dominated MOST by the importance of what?
Showing obedience to the Lord of the manor.