Year 7 History Exam 3 revision cards

Question 1

What passed up the feudal system?

Answer 1

Promises, wealth and military service.

Question 2

Who was Wat Tyler?

Answer 2

The leader of the Peasants’ revolt

Question 3

What religion was everybody in England in the medieval period?

Answer 3

Christian

Question 4

What did the Black Death do to the population of peasants in England?

Answer 4

It drastically reduced it.

Question 5

What were the four levels in the feudal system?

Answer 5

King-Barons-Knights-Peasants

Question 6

Why were peasants who survived the Black Death able to demand better pay and working conditions?

Answer 6

Because there was a peasant shortage after the Black Death so English nobles had to improve pay and conditions in order to hold onto their workers.

Question 7

Where did all people in England in the medieval period believe they would go to after they died and for how long?

Answer 7

Heaven, purgatory or hell. Forever.

Question 8

Why do so many churches survive from the medieval period, yet so few houses survive?

Answer 8

Churches were often the only buildings in communities made from brick and stone. Houses were often wattle and daub.

Question 9

Where did Wat Tyler’s peasants clash with Richard II’s soldiers on 15th June 1381?

Answer 9

Smithfield.

Question 10

Which question on Year 7 Exam 3 wants you to use your knowledge to decide and explain which interpretation is most convincing?

Answer 10

Q3

Question 11

What was the main community building in medieval villages?

Answer 11

The church

Question 12

In what years did peasants in England have to pay poll tax

Answer 12

1377, 1379, 1381.

Question 13

What were villeins?

Answer 13

The lower class of peasant - they were not paid and had to ask permission of the lord to leave the village.

Question 14

Who was king at the time of the Peasants’ Revolt?

Answer 14

King Richard II.

Question 15

What is wattle and daub?

Answer 15

Wattle and daub is a building material made from wet soil, clay, sand, animal dung and straw.

Question 16

True/false: Medieval peasants often had to share their homes with their cattle.

Answer 16

True

Question 17

In what year did the Black Death arrive in England?

Answer 17

1348

Question 18

Which question on Year 7 Exam 3 wants you to use PASTA to explain why the two interpretations are different?

Answer 18

Q2

Question 19

How many rooms did most medieval peasant houses have?

Answer 19

1

Question 20

What are villeins and freemen?

Answer 20

Types of peasant.

Question 21

What is Poll tax?

Answer 21

A 4 pence tax that every man over 15 had to pay - it didn’t matter how rich or poor you were.

Question 22

What was the year of the Peasants’ Revolt?

Answer 22

1381.

Question 23

What does a place called Smithfield have to do with the Peasants’ Revolt?

Answer 23

It is the place where Wat Tyler’s peasants clashed with Richard II’s soldiers on 15th June 1381.

Question 24

What were peasants houses usually made from in medieval times?

Answer 24

Wattle and daub.

Question 25

What was the main time when medieval peasants did not have to work?

Answer 25

During holy days (holidays), there were many of these every year.

Question 26

What passed down the feudal system?

Answer 26

Land.

Question 27

How much of what they grew did peasants have to give to the church?

Answer 27

10%

Question 28

What was a big worry that peasants had about the winter every year?

Answer 28

That they’d have enough food to survive and be able to keep warm.

Question 29

What were freemen?

Answer 29

The higher class of peasant - they tended to be skilled workers eg blacksmiths or stonemasons.

Question 30

Why did many poor people think that poll tax was so unfair?

Answer 30

Because every man over the age of 15 had to pay the same amount (4p) regardless of how rich or poor they were.

Question 31

What was the 10% of everything they grew that peasants had to give to the church called?

Answer 31

a tithe