BELLWORK
 Quickly discuss: What are the positive and
negatives of societal changes (changes in
society)?
 Food Drive items?!
CHANGES IN MEDIEVAL SOCIETY
THE END OF THE MIDDLE AGES
CHANGES IN FOOD PRODUCTION
 Switch to horsepower, horses are now the beasts of
burden for:
 Plowing
 Pulling Fields
 Expanding Farming
 3 Field System
 Two out of three fields are used, one field lays fallow
CHANGES IN BUSINESS
 Guilds were created to provide workers within the same
industry (blacksmith, welding, farming, etc.) to improve
working conditions and to share technology with each
other
COMMERCIAL REVOLUTION
More workers
needed.
Increased
Trade.
More cash,
banking, and
lending services
available.
Merchants’
wealth and
power increased.
Serfs moved to
town;
workers paid for
labor.
More money
available for
building
businesses.
Merchants’ taxes
increase the
king’s power and
wealth.
CHANGES IN URBAN LIFE
 Population BOOMED
 Busy cities, very crowded and FILTHY
CHANGES IN LEARNING
 Crusade reconnected Europe with the Middle East and
Asia
 Philosophy, math, science, astronomy, language, law all re-
emerged, setting the stage for one of the greatest
periods in Western Civilization.
HONORS STUDY GUIDE
 5 Questions are Document Based Questions
 All essential vocabulary
 2 factors in the Fall of Rome
 2 contributions from the Byzantine Empire
 1similarity and difference between European and Japanese Feudalism
 1 positive and negative outcome for each of the following: Crusades,
Silk Road, Plague