history term 1 cycle test Flashcards
What did people think of witches?
They belived that they were the devils followers, they blamed witches for natural disasters
what does treason mean
Doing something that is a serious act of disloyalty to the king or queen
describe what the church was like when it came to laws and courts
Catholic Church used its own courts and its own law to control people’s behaviour
what was crime control like?
- Before police forces, crime control was a community responsibility
- Villagers caught criminals themselves
- Created “tithings” - groups of 10 males over the age of 12 that were police people
-Criminals were put in cages or dead bodies displayed in town to discourage crime
5 types of torture:
embarressment, Torture, Imprisonment, Burning , Execution
what were the limits to the kings power?
-Kings made all the decisions under the feudal system
-By the late 13th century Kings began to call Parliament
-King’s needed parliament’s permission to raise money through taxes
what was the magna carter?
The Magna Carta represented the first acceptance of the idea that the people who decided the laws were more important than the king
around how long did peasents live? And how far away would they tarvel to work?
expected to live up to 40, travel up to 16 kilometres for work
who did the kings look up to?
the pope
what did cities build around them to protect them from war?
brick walls
what was the dark ages?
centuary 800, ruled by chalemagne, called dark ages beacsuse of the destruction, social
upheaval and lawlessness of this time.
whatn was in the early middle ages?
germanic tribes took over romanic land, rome split up into completely diffeent ggroups of land, dark ages, charlemagne became on of the biggest rulers, tookover most of western europe
what was in the high middle ages
a long time of warm wheather happened, making their be more crops, increase of population, in 1054 the christians in the east split from the catholic churchin support of the orthodox church in eastern europe, it called on a lot of military champagnes to who got to control the city of jerulism.
what was in the late middle ages
eurpope got hit by the black death ( a desease) and lost 50% of its population
fuedal system is:
monarch, then the tenents in chirf ( the lords and bishops ), the sub tenants ( the knights ), peasents
what was wealth like in medieval europe?
only small goups of wealthy men controlled, lived on the income of their escate, they took part in battle,
according to the catholic chruch, women werent allowed to own full wealth as they are their husbands property, women would stay at home and ensure the estate is running efficiently, wealthy children would get lots of education from their mothers (literature, mathematics)
what was being poor like in medieval europe?
male peasents had to work and go to war for their family, day and night, female peasents took care of cooking, healped with the harvest and looked after the child, trade helped the poor to sell their stuff, women could try trade but men wouldnt let them join guilds. childrren worked as soon as they could
everydaylife for medieval people
90 percent of medieva europe were peasents, lived in villiages of 100-300 people, lived in small clusters of houses, there was a community and no one knew much more, most villiages were nexxt to a river or lake, peasents used it for water supplys.
tell me about the manor:
a monor is a lord or lady who ruled the town, they took up a third of the town, every villiage had a common
tell me about the three feild system
one field was left without crops, and two of them had whatever crop of plant of theiir choice grown their, which they would change evry month
what do your write when it says outline?
clearly indicate main features,
what do you write when it says describe?
Provide enough characteristics and features
what do you write when it says explain?
Makes the relationship between things evident and provides reasoning on why/how
what do you say when it says identify?
Strongly recognised and names key features
