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We checked our test grades and we went through them.
My test score was good enough, but unfortunately my final grade was only 89.... but I still have final exam, the essay and class participation grade.  

After checking our tests, we went over the works for the final exam.

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Test on Feudalism was held

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We reviewed our time and exam preparation

Pg. 191


If I wanted to ace the Feudalism test,

I would look up the following terms in Chapter 11 in the textbook:

Feudalism - governmental system and the relationship and social between landowners and warriors

feudal compact- the official deal/contract between the vassal and the lord

fief- piece of land given to a knight

vassal- a knight that becomes a servantish worker person for a lord, but is still highly respected

knight – warrior at the time

homage - kneeling down and taking the lord's hand in his while speaking an oath of loyalty. Promising his loyalty

serf –Lowest on the social hierarchy. The quality of their life was not much better than a slave. They were the lowest of the peasants.

baron- lords of large territories who usually paid homage to the king. Barons army could outnumber that of a king. higher than a lord. 

peasantry- common people

estates- there were three different estates: the clergy-they were the ones who prayed; the nobility-fight and the common people- worked

manor- large plantations known the peasantry farmed on. They which were owned by a lord or lady, the nobility, or a member of the clergy

three-field-system- three sets of crops but only grew two at a time 

internal colonization

suburb

guild – groups of people who did different things

master- person in charge of you                                               

journeyman

apprentice – someone learning the ropes

masterpiece

water mill

and yes, iron plow – a tool they used in the middle ages for plowing the land

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We went over a new topic about Feudalism.

• Feudalism- governmental system and the relationships between landowners and warriors

• Warriors, or knights, would pledge his allegiance o the lord, who would in turn give that knight land

• The lord would grant a fief (property) to the knight who would then become the lords vassal /servant 

• Fief is a part old the land given to a knight

• Then you became a lords vassal (servantish)

• A vassal must fight for the lord when he needs a it and attend his curt once a month

• Homage and knighthood\a vassal had to pay homage to his lord which meant kneeling down and taking the lord's hand in his while speaking an oath of loyalty

• When a knight died his fief would be given to his son

• Some clergy priests were known to fight as knights

• Barons were lords of large territories who usually paid homage to the king

• A barons army could outnumber that of a king

• Peasants and lords

• The manorial estate

• Medieval society was divided into three "estates": the clergy the nobility and the common people

• Usually the peasantry farmed on large plantations known as "manors" which were owned by a lord or lady the nobility or a member of the clergy

• They didn't really know how bad they had it because they didn't really interact with other classes of people

• People of the manor

• The lord oversaw major agricultural issues buy delegated everyday overseeing to this stewards or bailiffs

• MOST peasants were serfs

• They were bound to their lords for labor services behind the plow

• Growth o trade

• The agricultural boom after 1000 years allowed for the establishment of many town across Europe

• Farm produce and animal were sold in towns and people with the wealth bought their luxury items there

• The location and appearance of towns

• Most medieval towns were surrounded by fortified walls

• Residences also sprang up outside the walls in the suburbs

• Towns  were dominated by a main church and a central marketplace buildings for the craft guilds and the  center of the town

• Buildings for the craft builds and the wealthiest families would also be center of town

• Life of the townspeople

• Thought the townspeople were free unlike serfs they still had a hierarchy merchants at the top then skilled crafts man and artisan then unskilled laborers apprentices

•  the guilds were their unions

• merchants, crafts man and artisans formed their own groups called guilds which regulated their trade protected its members

•  craftsmen were classified as masters, journeyman and apprentices

• One became a master after spending years learning as an apprentice working as a paid journeyman for a number of years, and completing his "masterpiece"

• Guilds participated in religious feasts and festivals social organizations and usually provided well for charities

Manors, Towns, and kingdoms. 1000-1300   chapter 11

The Feudalism

The feudal compact

Feudalism

Warriors knights

the loard     fief

The vassel

Homage and knighthood

a vassal was required to pay homage to his lord

Men were apprenticed to older knights

The Feudalism of the church

Feudal States

Barons were loards of large territory who usally paid homage


Peasants and loard


Medieval society was divided into three "estates": he clergy, the nobility and the common people.

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Mr. Shick gave our test's and quiz's back to us to review them. Our class average was extremely low, although I got a hundred on the test. we will have next and final test on friday. I shall prepare for that.

NOTES on After Rome 500 - 700

Germanic Kingdoms of Western Europe

 

The Germanic Barbarians

• Barbarian warlords and their families who assimilated into Roman culture became the “nobles” or aristocrats of medieval Europe

 

• Germanic tribes who ruled former Roman lands sought to conquer and assimilate other barbarian peoples who lived beyond the frontiers and were still pagans

 

More on Germanic Kingdoms

 

• The Angles and the Saxons (from Denmark and northwestern Germany) invaded Britain and assimilated the native Britons

 

• Most of the Anglo-Saxons were converted to Christianity in the seventh century

 

• The most powerful Germanic tribe was the Franks

 

• but the real power lay with the “mayors of the palace” who were royal officials and nobles themselves

 

Mean while, back in the Eastern Empire.

 

From “Eastern Empire” to “Byzantium”

 

• The Eastern Roman Empire continued on while the west was now divided up by the barbarian tribes

 

• When the emperor Justinian came to power in 527, he decided to reunite the entire Roman Empire by re-conquering the western territories

 

• Justinian succeeded for a time, but the land he re-took was soon conquered by new barbarian tribes and a massive plague depopulated much of the west

 

 

It's a Christian Empire now

 

 

• Greek Byzantine emperors saw themselves as Roman emperors and the heads of the Christian Church

 

• Byzantines preserved Greco-Roman art, architecture, philosophy and writing despite much of it being non-Christian

 

• Justinian built the massive domed Hagia Sophia ("Holy Wisdom") in Constantinople, considered to be the most glorious church on earth at the time

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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In class, we quickly went over material that we've learnt last class. Then we took a pop quiz. After all, we took notes on the powerpoint.