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Feudalism
Fall of Feudalism
100

The way that the black death spread

What is fleas on rats

100

Which element of worldview was most directly impacted by the Black Death’s high death toll?

What is Society?

100

How did the Black Death affect the feudal economy in Europe?

What is labour shortages- this lead to serfs gaining bargaining power, higher wages, and increased freedom

100

In what way did the bubonic plague affect the European worldview?

People began to question their faith and the way their society was structured.

200
This was the class system of Europe during the Medieval Era.
What is feudalism?
200

The plots of land gifted to nobels by higher ranking officials and which peasants and serfs would then work on. 

Manors

200

Feudalism had no room for _________ _________ in its system, meaning everyone was essentially doomed to stay in their status based on birth. 

Upward mobility

200

This reason for the fall of feudalism led to labour shortages, and death throughout Europe. 

The black death.

300
Labor shortages created by this allowed many serfs to gain independence and sped the replacement of labor with money as a way to pay rent.
What is the Black Plague?
300

The hierarchical economic and social system in the Middle Ages

Feudal system 

300

90% of Europe's population fell in this section of feudalism

Peasants/Serfs

300

The belief of how the black death arrived was

A punishment sent from god

400

Freemen that worked on manors received payment, true or false. 

True! However, serfs did not receive payment

400

A form of tax imposed on parishioners by church officials. 

Tithes

400

What was the Silk Road?

What is a network of trading routes that connected Europe with Asia.

400

How did the Black Death lead to changes in people’s beliefs about religion? 

It caused many to question the Church’s authority and promises.

500

This job in the Middle Ages involved walking for long periods of time, caring for heavy equipment, dressing knights in their armour, and cleaning armour and weapons after battle 

What is arming squire 

500

A way that a group looks at the world; the way a group interprets a particular event. A collective point of view.

What is perspective

500

Rank the levels in the feudal system in the correct order, from having MOST power to LEAST power

Monarchs (Kings), Nobles, Knighs, Serfs

500

After the fall of feudalism, people were able to achieve _______ ________ something that was not possible under the feudal system. This allowed them to improve their position in society.

upward mobility