UNIT 5: EMERGENCE
OF MODERN EUROPE
SSWH7 The student will analyze
European medieval society with
regard to culture, politics, society,
and economics.
a. Explain the manorial system and feudalism;
include the status of peasants and feudal
monarchies and the importance of Charlemagne.
 b. Describe the political impact of Christianity;
include Pope Gregory VII and King Henry IV.
 c. Explain the role of the church in medieval
society.
 d. Describe how increasing trade led to the
growth of towns and cities.
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REMEMBER THE RELIGIONS
REMEMBER THE UNITS
REMEMBER SPECIFIC PEOPLE
ECONOMICS AND POLITICS
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MANORIALISM
FEUDALISM
WHAT DO YOU KNOW?
WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE
EMERGENCE OF MODERN EUROPE?
WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT
EUROPE?
EUROPE, 800
EUROPE, 900
EUROPE, 1000
ECO AND POL
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MANORIALISM
political, economic,
and social system
by which the
peasants of
medieval Europe
were rendered
dependent on their
land and on their
lord
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Its basic unit was the
manor, a self-sufficient
landed estate, or fief
under the control of a lord
who enjoyed a variety of
rights over it and the
peasants attached to it by
means of serfdom
made feudalism possible
Peasants worked the land
for lords and had few
rights
FEUDALISM
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Feudalism was a set of legal and
military customs ( A KIND OF
POLITICAL SYSTEM) in medieval
Europe that flourished between the
9th and 15th centuries, which,
broadly defined, was a system for
structuring society around
relationships derived from the
holding of land in exchange for
service or labour.
The Middle Ages
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The Middle Ages
period of European history
encompassing the 5th to the 15th
centuries
from the collapse of the Western
Roman Empire until the beginning of
the Renaissance and the Age of
Discovery
ushered in the Modern Era.
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after AD 1000, the population of Europe
increased greatly as technological and
agricultural innovations allowed trade to flourish
and crop yields to increase
Manorialism — the organization of peasants into
villages that owed rent and labor services to the
nobles
feudalism — the political structure whereby
knights and lower-status nobles owed military
service to their overlords, in return for the right
to rent from lands and manors
two of the ways society was organized in the
High Middle Ages. Kingdoms became more
centralized after CHARLEMANGE
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