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Life And Death In Medival Times Flashcards

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When did the Middle Ages start and end

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It started in 800 AD and ended in 1500 AD

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What was the feudal system

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It was the system of land ownership where rulers divided amongst their followers in return for loyalty and taxes the followers were called nobles or vassals

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What were the nobles or vassals given in return for their loyalty

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They were given land called fief

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What did the nobles or vassals swear to their king

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They swore and oath of fealty

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What was the oath of fealty

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It was promising to fight for him, provide him with troops and pay him taxes

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Where were the knights in the feudal system

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The knights were below the nobles in the system the nobles gave them some land in return for protection

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Who did the knights look after

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The knights looked after the peasants ( people who worked on a lords land)

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What did a lord do with the land that given to him

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They built a motte and bailey

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Why was a motte and Bailey built ?

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He needed to build a castle to defend himself and his people from enemies they needed to build their castle quickly so they built a motte and Bailey castle quickly out of earth and wood

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What is a draw bridge

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The drawbridge could be raised and lowered to control entry to the castle

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what is a keep

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the keep was the main building inside the walls. It held the lords apartments, the great hall and chapel

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what is a tower

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towers were built into the walls and it gave them protection

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what is a Bailey

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The enclosed area and the keep was called the bailey. Here the stables, workshops, kitchen well water and soliders lodgings were situated

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What is a motte

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A motte was a small artifical hill with a wooden tower or keep at the top of it

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what is a porticullis

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the portcullis was a metal grid that could be lowered over the gate if neccesary

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what were the curtain walls

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The curtain walls enclosed the castle and protected those inside

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what were the battlements

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They ran along the top of the keep and the walls soliders would patrol along them day and night

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what did foot soliders fight with?

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they fought with swords, daggers and spears and had sheilds for protection

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What did archers fight with

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they fought with bows and arrows or sometimes longbows or crossbows they wore very little protective clothing

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what are the weapons of an English medival knight

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The long sword, wooden lance with an iron tip, metal headed mace, battle axe and a dagger

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What did the knights wear?

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They wore heavy armour made of metal

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What are the names of the 3 stages you have to go through to become a knight

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A page, a squire and a knight

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What happened at the first stage as a page

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At 7 a boy would be sent to live with another lord which was called fostering. he would learn how to use a sword and was taught manners

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What happened at the 2nd stage as a squire

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At 14 he would learn to fight on horseback and accompany his lore into battle aswell as helping him dress for battles

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What happened at the final stage as a knight

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At 21 he is eligble to become a knight. The night before the ceremony he would pray in a chapel. Then dressed in a white robe and full armour he took part in the ceremony of dubbing

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What were tournments good for?

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Tournaments were a way for knights to practice for battle in between wars

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what was a melee?

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It was a mass tournament where two teams of horsemen clashed in formation

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What was a joust

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It was where two knights would charge eachother and try to knock of the other of their horse with a lance

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What was a manor

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A manor was a smalll, like a village. It was equipped with a manor house, church and peasant houses

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Who was the baliff

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the baliff kept law and order and collected tax

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How did they get their resources

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There were fields for growing crops and commons for grazing aninals, a river and well for water and a woodland for wood

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who took the occupation of farming

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peasants

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What system did they use to farm

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The open field system

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How was the land diveded

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The land for crops was divided into three huge fiels. each field was divided into long strips of land and tended by different families

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What was crop rotation

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It meant that the crop planted in each field changed each year

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what were the two types of peasants

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A freeman and a surf

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What was a freeman

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A freeman had to pay rent to the lord and pay a tithe but did not have to work the land for free

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What was a surf

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Serfs essentialy belonged to their lord. They worked six days a week farming

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what were the qualities of a serfs home

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It had a single room with a wattle and doub walls, an earthen floor and a thatched roof. inside was cramped, dark and smoky from the fire

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What did the men and women wear in medival times

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men wore tunics and leggings, while women wore long dresses with a head scarf their shoes were made from leather

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what did their diet consist of?

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Their diet consisted of bread, cheese and vegetable and oat soup called pottage. They drank ale because it was safer to drink than water they rarely ate meat

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What were the punishments for crimes

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The most common punishment was a fine or sometimes a thief could have their hands cut off or somtimes a ducking stool was used to punish women causing toruble by tying them to a chair and lowering them into the water reapitadliy

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what was a guild

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each town formed guilds, organistaions of people who worked in the same tired

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how did someone become a master craftsmen?

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A boy became an apprentice in his fathers workshop he recieved no pay and was treated harshly after seven years he became a journeyman now he could be paid for his work and travel to different workshops and towns for work. eventually he applied to become a master craftsmen. he created a masterpeice if the guild decided it was good enough he was accepetd

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how could you become a monk

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at 15 he joined the monastery as a novice learned how to read and write in latin and studied church teachings he had to follow the stirct set of 73 rules of St Benedict the head monk of abot then decided if he was ready to become a mon k. He swore his oath of poverty, chasity and obiedince

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what was a tonsure

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The crown of a monks head was shaved

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what did people in the middle ages believe was the reason for their sickness

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they believed that they were sick because it was a punishment from god

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What did the fathers of medicine believe the body was made up of

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Four humours, blood, black bile, yellow bile and Phlegm if a person was sick it meant there was an inbalance in one of these humours

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What were the three most common ilnesses

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Typhoid, small pox and leprosy

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What did barbers also do aside from cutting hair

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They used to carry out operations even tho they were unskilled

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What was the feudalism

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The system of land ownership

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Who were peasants

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People who worked on a lords land

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What was an open field system

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A system of farming

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What was a tithe

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The payment of 1/10 of the peasants annual income to the church

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What was the oath of chivalry

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Sworn by a night to be loyal to his lords, protect the weak and poor and to be brave

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What was a charter

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A contract whereby a town was granted freedom to run its own affairs but paid taxes to the king

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What was a guild

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An organization of skilled people who worked in the same trade

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