Social 8 Chapter 1 Test

Question 1

What is a worldview?

Answer 1

An individual or group’s collection of beliefs about life and the universe. The overall perspective someone sees and interprets the world with

Question 2

What does pervasive mean?

Answer 2

It means something is everywhere in the way we think about the world

Question 3

What are the 7 elements of worldviews?

Answer 3

Geography, Time, Beliefs, Society, Values, Economy, Knowledge

Question 4

What does the geography worldview mean?

Answer 4

Worldview is based on where you live and its climate

Question 5

What does the time worldview mean?

Answer 5

Worldview is based on how society views time (sun, moon, seasons, clocks, etc.)

Question 6

What does the belief worldview mean?

Answer 6

Worldview is based on what you think about life, death, and the environment

Question 7

What does the society worldview mean?

Answer 7

Worldview is based on people and who has power, equity, and people doing certain things based on status

Question 8

What does the value worldview mean?

Answer 8

Worldview is based on how people act towards each other and what treatments (of each other) are important

Question 9

What does the economy worldview mean?

Answer 9

Worldview is based on the management and control of resources

Question 10

What does the knowledge worldview mean?

Answer 10

Worldview is based on how people learn and who is taught

Question 11

Are worldviews static?

Answer 11

No they are not static because our worldview shifts how we see things and how we act based on our experiences

Question 12

What was the black plague?

Answer 12

Also known as the bubonic plague, the black death spread through rats and fleas and killed around 30-50% of the European population at the time.

Question 13

What sparked the beginning of the renaissance?

Answer 13

The black death

Question 14

What was feudalism?

Answer 14

The system of political organization during the middle ages. It was a hierarchy where people were ranked on their importance to each other

Question 15

In feudalism, could you move from one level to another?

Answer 15

No, you were born into a rank and expected to stay in it throughout your life

Question 16

What were the rankings in the feudal system?

Answer 16

Top: The crown (king or queen)
Below: Nobles and bishops
Below: Knights
Bottom: Commoners (freeholders and serfs)

Question 17

What was feudalism based on?

Answer 17

Land, loyalty to the monarch, and duty

Question 18

What did Nobles or knights have to do to get fiefs or manors?

Answer 18

They swore oaths of allegiance to the crown as signs of loyalty

Question 19

What did the peasants do on the noble’s farmland?

Answer 19

Peasants would farm the land for the noble and receive a portion. In exchange for the harvest, nobles were sworn to protect their peasants

Question 20

What were the types of peasants?

Answer 20

Freemen and serfs

Question 21

Who were freemen?

Answer 21

Peasants who paid rent for the land and got to keep their harvest

Question 22

Who were serfs?

Answer 22

Peasants who worked on the manors and wouldn’t be allowed to leave the manor without the Lord’s permission. Basically slaves

Question 23

What is a monastery?

Answer 23

A building where monks lived and practiced their religious duties

Question 24

What was the place where nuns prayed, lived, and studied called?

Answer 24

A convent

Question 25

Why did the people living in towns build walls around the town?

Answer 25

To protect themselves from rival cities and lords

Question 26

Why would people want to live in the medieval towns?

Answer 26

They were dirty and rat infested but people wanted to live in towns because the had the freedom to marry whoever they wanted and the opportunity to make as much money they could

Question 27

How would a serf earn their freedom?

Answer 27

If they ran away from their manor and lived in a town for a year and one day without being discovered and brought back

Question 28

What could peasants do (in terms of business) in the towns?

Answer 28

Peasants with skills could open up shops to sell their goods. Unskilled peasants could learn trades. Others worked for wealthy merchants as servants or labourers

Question 29

What were guilds?

Answer 29

Guilds were organizations that ran the production of goods and trades

Question 30

What did guilds control?

Answer 30

The prices of goods, set standards of quality, and decided who could be trained

Question 31

What modern day organizations do guilds resemble?

Answer 31

Unions

Question 32

Did guilds ever take care of family members?

Answer 32

Yes they did during times of illness or injuries

Question 33

How old were children when they went to when they went to live and work with a master to learn a trade?

Answer 33

They were 8 or 9 years old

Question 34

What did these children need to do to become a journeyman?

Answer 34

They had to train for years, take a test to become a journeyman, then be admitted to the guild