Unit 1 Origins o the modern world Flashcards
What lead to population increase and what lead to population decrease?
Good agricultural year=population growth
Bad agricultural year=population decrease
Conditions under which most people lived in 1440 were
- Agricultural world
- Restricted lives
- Shared a basically similar material world
Trading networks in the 1440’s played these two major roles
- Connected most of the old world together
* Brought the parts of the world into increasingly greater contact
Alaric was the
Leader of the Visigoths
What is meant by the phrase “town air makes free”?
A way to earn freedom
What is the peace of God?
The church ruling that insisted that knights did not slaughter unarmed people like peasants, women and children.
What is the Truce of God?
The church ruling that insisted that knights did not engage in warfare and violence during specific time of the year, such as Lent and Christmas.
What was the guild system?
System which urban workers of the same profession bound together to create stable pricing of services, continue the apprentice process, and enforce labor practices and professional standards.
What is the system of mutual obligations?
A system where the lords gave fiefs to vassals in return of vassals working for the lord.
Farmers in the middle ages left one third to one half of their land _____, meaning unplanted so that it could recoup lost nutrients.
Fallow
Marks described famine as a “social phenomenon.” What does he mean by this?
If taxes were lowered, could prevent some famines.
Noble families got their ranks from the documents that are called_____.
Patents of nobility
This pope encouraged the European knights to join him in the crusades.
Pope Urban II
What does the term “subsistence level” mean?
A level where there is just enough food to support the population.
