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What was a vassal

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The kings followers were called his vassals

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What was a feudal system

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How the land was owned and society was organised

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What was a peasant

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A person who worked on the land

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What was a serf

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A person who belonged to The Lord and formed his land

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What was a freeman

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A peasant that paid rent and tax to The Lord but could travel as he pleased

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What was a bailiff

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He looked after the lords accounts and kept law and order on the estate

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What was a manor

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Village where they lived

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What is fallow

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A field with nothing growing

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Where did serfs live

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Serfs houses

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Where did I The Lord live

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Manor house

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Where did the bailiff live

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Bailiffs house

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How did serfs pray or The Lord

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By giving him one tenth if his crops called a tithe

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What was an ale

House

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Where they drank beer

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How many rooms where in a serfs house and what were they used for

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One for eating and sleeping

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How did they build there houses

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Wattle and daub

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What was there farming system called

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The open field system

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What did serfs eat

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Dark Bread cheese and pottage

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What did serfs wear

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They spun wool and the women wove flax

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What was the most common punishment

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The stocks

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What happened to a their

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Hand cut off

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What happened to women who gossiped

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The went in the ducking stool

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What was a matte and bailey castle

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First type of castles made from wood

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What was the keep

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The main building in the stone. Castle where they lived

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What was battle ment

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At the top of the kelp wheree soldiers stood and watched for enemy

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Hwta was a turret

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Strong towers along the walls

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What were curtain walls

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The outer walls of the castle

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What was a portcullis

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An iron grille that can drop and raise in front of the gate

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What were the latrines

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The toilets

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What wa the forge q

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Where the blacksmith worked

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What was a catapult

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To hurl huge boulders over the walls

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What was a ballista q

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Like a giant crossbow used to fire giant crossbows

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What was a siege tower/ladder

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We’re used to try and climb the walls

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What where the ramparts

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Fan along the tips of the walks and where wide enough to walk on

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What was the solar

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The room which the lady of the castle used for work such as embroidery and it was the warmest room in the castle

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Waht was a tapestry

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Like a decorated carpet on the wall used to keep heat in

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What was a trencher

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Big slices of bread that food was served on

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What was hawking

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It was a pastime where birds hunted for prays

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What was jousting

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Mick battle between knights

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What was a dowry

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Money or good that a woman’s family gave to the husband when they got marrie d

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Wat was a page

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A 7 yr old sent to a lord to learn to be a knight he also waited on the lady

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Squire

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A 14 yr old helps lord in battle

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What was dubbing

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The ceremony in which squire turns into a knight

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What was a chivalry

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A code of honour that said that a knight should be brave love god and protect women and children

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What was a High street

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The only street that had stones and it had all the shops on it

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Waht was a toll

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A tax that traders had to pay to get past the gates to sell goods

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What was a Curfew

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It means to cover the. Fire

It was the time when all the fires in the town had to go out

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What was leprosy

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A skin disease. That caused sores to break out all over the body

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Where did people with leprosy have to go

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They left the town to live in a Special place

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What was the Black Death

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Disease caused by black rat that killed 1/3 of European population

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WhHere did the people who had have to go

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Them and their families would be locked in there house for 5 days

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What did Black Death do to people

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It caused swellings on their neck armpits or groin

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What was a charter

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A legal document granted by the king that allowed people to run there own towns

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What was a corporation

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The citizens council

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What where Guilds

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An organisation that every crafters on had to belong to

Each craft had its own guild

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What was an apprentice

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The first part if becoming a craftsman
It was a 12 year oldest to a master craftsman to learn a trade
He would not get pay

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What was a journeyman

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After seven ayers if being an apprentice he gets ages and can travel around looking for work

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What was a master

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After a journey man made a masterpiece he became a master and had his own shop.

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What where the three parts of a craftsman

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1 apprentice
2 journeyman
3. Master

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What was a parish

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What the church was divided up into

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What was a dioceses

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A group of parishes which each had a bishop

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What spwas a cathedral

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Each dioceses’ bishop built a big church called a cathedral

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What does Romanesque mean

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They where stone churches with round arches little windows and thick round columns and dark interiors

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What does gothic mean

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They where churches with stain glass windows flying buttresses stone statues and spires

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Gnat are the features of a Romanesque church

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Round arches
Dark interior
Thick round column s
Small windows (glass not stained)

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What are the features of a gothic church

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Spires
Pointed arches
Slim columns
Stained windows
Flying buttresses 
Stone statues over door and windows
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What was a In dormitory a medieval monastery

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Where the monks slept

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What was a cloister In a medieval monastery

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Where the monks walked and prayed

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What was a chapter house In a medieval monastery

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Where the monks went to discus the business of the monastery and elect the abbot

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What was an infirmary In a medieval monastery

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Where the sick where nursed

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Whi was the abbot

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The ruler of the monastery

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What was a Scriptorium In a medieval monastery

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Where the manuscripts where copied

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What was a guest house In a medieval monastery

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Where the monks gave food to the poor people and travellers

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Where did the monks eat there meals

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The reflectory

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Wher do the monks walk and pray

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They cloisters

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Where did the monks sleep

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The dormitory

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Where did the monks elect the abbot and discuss business

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The chapter house

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What was the matins

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Morning prayer

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What was the prime

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Silent prayer

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What was the vespers

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Evening prayer

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What was the compline

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Night prayer

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What was the function of a monastery

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Used as inns and hospitals and where poor peolpe went for help
Boys and girls where educated in monastery’s

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What did the Normans introduce to ireland

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Towns eg athlone and kells 
New methods of farming eg open field system 
Castles 
New laws the replaced Brehan law 
Monasteries churches and gothic style 
English language
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What was the matins

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Morning prayer

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What was the prime

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Silent prayer

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What was the vespers

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Evening prayer

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What was the compline

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Night prayer

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What was the function of a monastery

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Used as inns and hospitals and where poor peolpe went for help
Boys and girls where educated in monastery’s

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Explain why woman would get married in a medieval period

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So the husband could support her and she could get richer

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Why where spices so sought after in medieval times

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Because they believed they would cure sickness

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What was the function if the guild

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They paid for people’s funerals and looked after sick members

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What did a monk get his hair cut into

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A tonsure

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Whi replaced the abbot when he was away

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The prior

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Who looked after the travellers

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The almoner

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Who looked after he sick

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The infirmaran

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When did craftsmens workshops close

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They closed after dinner on Saturday and could not open again until Monday at sunrise

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How could a boy become a monk

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When a boy joined a monastery he was called a novice. He had to learn the rules and see if they suited him. If the head of the monastery the abbot thought the novice would make a good monk he let him take his solemn vows

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