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Section 4: Middle Ages Flashcards

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Feudal system

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This is how land was owned and organised in a society

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Middle ages

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The time from about AD 500 to AD 1500

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Demense

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A king had a land which had gave piece if them for his followers and the quarter of land was hid own.

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Serf

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A person who belonged to his Lord and farmed his land

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Freeman

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A man who paid taxes for the Lord but he could travel as he pleased

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Manor

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The land everything owned by the Lord

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Tithe

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Church tax

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Commons

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Is where the peasants animals gathered together

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Fallow

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Each year one of the three fields was left as a fallow with nothing growing.

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Crop rotation

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Each year one of the three fields was left as a fallow with nothing growing.

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Pottage

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Vegetable soup with oatmeal

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Bailiff

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The bailiff is who make sure the peasants paid taxes

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Sanctuary

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Sometimes a person hinted by a bailiff and arrested by he

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Motte and Bailey

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They were made of wooden,very simple to build. Small hill was the motte. Fort was were they looked out. Bailey was where everyone lived.

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Moat

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A little river around the motte and bailey.

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Keep

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Was the main building of castle were Lord and family lived.

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Battlements

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Were the top of keep. All they long the soliders kept guard from here.

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Turrets

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Were strong towers along the walls

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Portcullis

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Was an iron grille that could be lowered in front of the castle gate.

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Ramparts

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Ran alone the top of the walls

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Latrines

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Were the toilets of the castle

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Trenchers

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Big slices of bread on which was served the food.

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Wimple

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The headress in Middle Ages

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Hawking

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Hunting with a trained hawk

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Jousting

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The knights game. Blunt swords and lances were used.

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Dowry

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Money that the wife’s family gives to husband to get married

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Page

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This the first stage to being a knight. When a lords son was 7 years old his father sent to him to an another castle to he can learn riding a horse and use sword.

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Squire

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When the boy was 14 years old he learned how to fight from a horses back. And also if was a warrior his knight bring him to helping in armours

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Dubbing

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The ceremony to be a knight.

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Chivalry

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The promise to be loyal to God when you been knight

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Toll

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The tax which was payed to you can trade in the town.

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Curfew

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Was that you can’t hold the fire in the house than you needed to put out when the bell ringed.

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Leprosy

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It was an type of skin disease that was contagious.

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Black Death

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The plague had killed more than one third of population in Europe. Was bringer by the black rat

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Charter

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This was a legal document in which the king agred to left the town

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Apprentice

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This is the First stage to become a crqftman which it was started with 7 years old boys

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Journeyman

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After 7 years at a craftman the boy becomes a journeyman which means that he travelled and build church

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Master craftman

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To become a a master craftman u needed to build a masterpiece

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Romanesque

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There were the first stone churches.

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Fling buttresses

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There were arches outside of the gothic church to support the weight of the roof

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Dormitory

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There were slept the monks

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Refectors

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Where the monks ate their meal

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Scriptory

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There were copied the manuscripts

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Cloister

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a covered walk, especially in a religious institution, having an open arcade or colonnade usually opening onto a courtyard.

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Infirmary

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The hospital in Middle Ages

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Chapter house

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There were the monks discuss about business

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Novice

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When the boy joined the monastery than the first stage to be a monk

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Tonsure

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The hairstyle for the monks

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Matins

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Morning prayers

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Vespers

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Evening prayers

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Compline

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Night prayer and return to beds

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Abbot

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Head of the monastery

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Prior

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He worked with the business

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Almoner

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Looked after poor

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Hostel

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Looked after travellers

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Frair

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They helped the monks. They travelled working with the poor

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