Peasants, Trade And New Cities 10:2 Flashcards
Name the 3 farming advances
🔻Harnessed the power of water and wind
🔻devices were made from iron (carruca)
🔻change in crop rotation
What is a carruca
Heavy-wheeled plow with an iron plowshare
Plown by six-eight oxen
Led to the growth of farming villages
How does the Three-field crop rotation work
Farmers allowed 1/3 of the field to lie fallow to regain fertility
These are agricultural estates a lord ran and peasants worked
Manors
Define serfs
Peasants legally bound to the land but were cannot be sold
Benefits of a serf staying in a manor
They cant be sold into slavery
They can use the lord’s amenities
They have shelter
Protection
Responsibilities of a serf
Worked the Lord’s land 3 days a week
Paid rents as payment of amenities
Couldnt leave without permission
Could be tried in court
What was the staple of Medieval food
Bread
What was the use of salt
Preserved meat through the winter
What were the two trading centers in the Mediterranean
Venice, Italy and Flanders
Due to the mercantile fleet
What is a mercantile fleet
Fleet of Trading ships
It is the Medieval Trade Association
Alliance of european cities that banded together for mutual trade and economic oppurtunity
Hanseatic League
What is commercial capitalism
Economic system in which people invested in trade and goods for profit
What did the banking firms issue in placd of gold
Letter of credit
What are the Annual Trade Fairs?
Initiated by the counts of champagne.
Sold spices and other products
Where were the trade fairs held
Near the castle for their protection
What was the attraction in the trade fairs
Vesters or performers
Processions
Wanted to see humiliation
Where did merchants settle?
Old roman cities
Who developed skills and saw a chance to make goods that the merchants could sell
Artisans
Define bourgeoisie
“Walled enclosure”
Merchants and artisans from old roman cities
Created the middle class (no obligation to lords)
What did the bourgeoisie do with their money?
Bought their freedom and laws they wanted
Give the four laws that were bought by artisans
Right to buy and sell property
Freedom from military service
Freedom was guaranteed
Escaped serf can become free after 366 days
Who were considered citizens
Males who were born in the city
These people were elected for public office
Patrician citizens