Middle Ages Flashcards
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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
Strong towers along the walls
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What were curtain walls
The outer walls of the castle
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What was a portcullis
An iron grille that can drop and raise in front of the gate
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What were the latrines
The toilets
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What wa the forge q
Where the blacksmith worked
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What was a catapult
To hurl huge boulders over the walls
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What was a ballista q
Like a giant crossbow used to fire giant crossbows
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What was a siege tower/ladder
We're used to try and climb the walls
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What where the ramparts
Fan along the tips of the walks and where wide enough to walk on
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What was the solar
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
Like a decorated carpet on the wall used to keep heat in
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What was a trencher
Big slices of bread that food was served on
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What was hawking
It was a pastime where birds hunted for prays
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What was jousting
Mick battle between knights
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What was a dowry
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
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
A 14 yr old helps lord in battle
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What was dubbing
The ceremony in which squire turns into a knight
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What was a chivalry
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
The only street that had stones and it had all the shops on it
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Waht was a toll
A tax that traders had to pay to get past the gates to sell goods
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What was a Curfew
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
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
They left the town to live in a Special place
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What was the Black Death
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
Them and their families would be locked in there house for 5 days
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What did Black Death do to people
It caused swellings on their neck armpits or groin
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What was a charter
A legal document granted by the king that allowed people to run there own towns
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What was a corporation
The citizens council
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What where Guilds
An organisation that every crafters on had to belong to
| Each craft had its own guild
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What was an apprentice
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
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
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
1 apprentice
2 journeyman
3. Master
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What was a parish
What the church was divided up into
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What was a dioceses
A group of parishes which each had a bishop
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What spwas a cathedral
Each dioceses' bishop built a big church called a cathedral
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What does Romanesque mean
They where stone churches with round arches little windows and thick round columns and dark interiors
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What does gothic mean
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
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
Where the monks slept
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What was a cloister In a medieval monastery
Where the monks walked and prayed
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What was a chapter house In a medieval monastery
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
Where the sick where nursed
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Whi was the abbot
The ruler of the monastery
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What was a Scriptorium In a medieval monastery
Where the manuscripts where copied
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What was a guest house In a medieval monastery
Where the monks gave food to the poor people and travellers
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Where did the monks eat there meals
The reflectory
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Wher do the monks walk and pray
They cloisters
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Where did the monks sleep
The dormitory
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Where did the monks elect the abbot and discuss business
The chapter house
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What was the matins
Morning prayer
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What was the prime
Silent prayer
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What was the vespers
Evening prayer
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What was the compline
Night prayer
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What was the function of a monastery
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
Morning prayer
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What was the prime
Silent prayer
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What was the vespers
Evening prayer
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What was the compline
Night prayer
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What was the function of a monastery
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
So the husband could support her and she could get richer
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Why where spices so sought after in medieval times
Because they believed they would cure sickness
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What was the function if the guild
They paid for people's funerals and looked after sick members
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What did a monk get his hair cut into
A tonsure
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Whi replaced the abbot when he was away
The prior
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Who looked after the travellers
The almoner
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Who looked after he sick
The infirmaran
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When did craftsmens workshops close
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
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
