Bell Work
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Visual Skills: On page 253, study the graphic of the
social order of classes under feudalism.
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Questions:
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Which level represents the vassals in the feudal
order?
What does the triangle shape of the graph indicate
about the different classes in the feudal system?
Review
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Which of the following words means “political
order and social order?”
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Vassal
Feudalism
Fief
Code
What was a fief?
Analyzing Images
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Visual Skills: On page 254, study the cutaway diagram of a castle.
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Questions:
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What is the function and purpose of the
drawbridge?
Where are the bedrooms compared with the
servants’ quarters? What does that indicate?
Making Inferences
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Critical Thinking: On page 254, read the third
paragraph about the castle.
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Questions:
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What is a motte?
What was the purpose of building the keep on the
motte?
What other features were designed to help protect
the castle and its residents?
Bell Work
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Read: On page 253, read the Primary Source
over the vassal’s oath to his lord.
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Writing Skills:
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Rewrite that oath in modern language, so that the
oath would be easily understandable to someone
hearing it today.
Cornell Notes
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Choose two sections of reading
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Lords, Vassal, and Knights
Nobles and Knights in Medieval Society
Two Groups of Peasants
The Lives of the Peasants
Improvements in Farming
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Feudalism
Chivalry
Vassal
Guild
Fief
Serf
Knight
Military
Code
Flanders
Venice
Bell Work
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Using the reading of “The Growth of Towns
and Cities” on page 257, complete the
following:
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List two reasons why the population began to
grow
List the new forms of technology that resulted in
more crops
The Lord of the Manor
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For safety and
defense, people in
the Middle Ages
formed small
communities around
a central lord or
master.
The Manor
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Most people lived
on a manor, which
consisted of the
castle (or manor
house), the church,
the village, and the
surrounding farm
land.
Self-Sufficiency
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Each manor was largely selfsufficient, growing or producing
all of the basic items needed for
food, clothing, and shelter.
To meet these needs, the manor
had buildings devoted to special
purposes, such as:
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The mill for grinding grain
The bake house for making bread
The blacksmith shop for creating
metal goods.
MEDIEVAL LIFE
Cooperation and Mutual
Obligations
KING
MANORIALISM:
ECONOMIC SYSTEM
FEUDALISM:
POLITICAL SYSTEM
Fief and Peasants
 Decentralized, local
government
 Dependent upon the
relationship between
members of the nobility
 Lord and his vassals
administered justice
and were the highest
authority in their land
 Agriculture the basis for
wealth
 Lands divided up into
self-sufficient manors
 Peasants (serfs) worked
the land and paid rent In
exchange for protection
 Barter the usual form of
exchange
Military Aid
Loyalty
LORDS (VASSALS TO KING)
Food
Protection
Shelter
Military Service
Homage
KNIGHTS (VASSALS TO LORDS)
Food
Protection
Farm the
Land
PEASANTS (SERFS)
Shelter
Pay
Rent
Farming Improvements:
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Use of horses instead of oxen. Horses could plow twice
as much as an oxen in a day.
•The Three Field System emerges. Enables people to use 2/3
of their 600 acres of farmland instead of just 1/2.
–Field 1: 200 acres for a winter crop such as wheat or rye.
–Field 2: 200 acres for a spring crop such as oats, barley, peas, or beans.
–Field 3: 200 acres lay fallow for animals to graze.
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Review
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What made up the lands of a fief?
What was a manor?
What are three main parts of a medieval
manor?
Wealthy Trading Centers
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As Europe’s trade increased, towns grew
larger and several cities became wealthy
from trade.
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Examples: Venice, Pisa, Genoa (all Italy)
Common characteristic: seaports
Common industry: shipbuilding
Trading partner: Byzantine Empire
Review
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What did Venice, Pisa, and Genoa all have in
common?
What industry became successful in these
cities?
With whom did these cities often trade?
Trade Fairs
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Established in northern France
Products were bartered
Italy-furs, tin, honey, wool
Asia- silks, sugar, spices
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Example: Flanders (part of Belgium today)
became a center of trade fairs
Government in Cities
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Reading Skills: On page 258, read about
“Government in Cities”
Questions:
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What were the two main classes in the early Middle
Ages?
What factors created the new middle class in
Europe?
Why did members of the new middle class try to
break with the nobles who controlled towns under
the feudal system?
What Did Guilds Do?
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Four functions that guilds performed in a
medieval town:
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Controlled business and trade
Set the price of a product or service
Set and enforced standards of quality
Decided who could join a trade
Lesson Review
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What impact did the code of chivalry have on
knights during the Middle Ages?
What explains the development of cities and
towns during the Middle Ages?
If you were a person in business in medieval
Europe, why would membership in a guild be
important to you?
Bell Work
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Get out a clean sheet of paper
Clear your desk
Title your paper “Feudalism and the Rise of
Towns Quiz”
Number your paper from 1-10
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Diary Entry
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Write a diary entry for a peasant who lived in a
medieval manor.
You can choose to write as a man or woman,
old or young.
Write about a typical day in the life of the person
they select.
Should reflect what you have learned about the
lives of peasants and their relationship to the
lord of the manor.
At least one paragraph (5 sentences)