Middle Ages Notes

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Middle Ages Notes
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The Middle Ages or Medieval Times

• The years between the fall of Rome and 1500 AD
  (the era of modern nations)

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Feudalism

• A type of government
• It was based on people with power protecting
  people with lesser power

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Social Ladder of the Middle Ages

• King Monarch
• Lord or Nobles the rich upper class
• Knights warriors
• Serfs common people

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Guilds

• Groups formed by different crafts people to
  support their industryExamples shoemakers,
  weavers, bakers

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Manorialism

• System in which the Lord received food and work
  in exchange for his protection

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Magna Carta

• Document the nobles forced Englands King John to
  sign in 1215
• It guaranteed English people basic rights

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The Church

• Christianity The Roman Catholic Church
• This is a picture of St. Peters Cathedral in
  Rome, Italy.

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The Church

• The church saved education. Most people were
  uneducated it was priests and monks who how to
  read and write in Latin. They also kept history
  alive by copying books by hand as there was no
  printing press at this time.

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The Church

• Christian belief was so widespread that this time
  is also known as the Age of Faith.
• Monks devoted their lives to religion and lived
  in monasteries.

• Nuns are women whodevote themselves to religion
  and live in convents.