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| What years were known as the middle ages | 800-1100 |
| Why was the Middle ages also known as dark Ages | There was very little learning or education going on |
| Who did people of this time period need protection from? | The Vikings etc. |
| Manor | are of land that the Lord was in charge of to protect |
| Lord | Person responsible for taking care of Manors |
| Explain how manors were self-sufficient | They were able to take care of themselves. |
| Define Surfs | People that worked the Lords land |
| Things needed on a Manor | Food, Clothing, Shelter, |
| Did people travel around during the middle ages | no they stayed on the manor. |
| Kings divided their land up into | Manors |
| Who was in charge of taking care of the Manors | Lords |
| How did the King benefit from the Manors | They sent crops etc to the King |
| Why did Feudalism decline? | New farm equipement so they were less need for people to work the fields. 2. Increased food supply 3. increased population and the size of armies |
| What effect did the size of armies have? | People started to trade instead of fight |
| What effect did increased trade have on the people | Growth of towns and cities. |
| How did the growth of cities effect the surfs | Serfs left the manor to find work in the cities. |
| What were the Crusades | Military and religious trips back to the Holy land |
| What did the Catholics want from the Crusades? | Land back from the Arabs |
| Who funded the crusades and why? | Italian merchants in exchange for trading rights |
| What types of goods were traded during the crusades | Silk Spices etc. |
| Define bougeoisie (buzshwazee) | an urgan middle class soon developed throughout Europe |
| Why did the middle class develop | People were getting wealthy from trading. |
| What power did the middle class have | They limited the power of the kings |
| Magna Carta | Limited the Kings power |
| Define Renaissance | a rebirth of learning and art throughout Europe |
| During the middle ages people had no reason to learn how to ________ or _________ | Read or write |
| With the new flow of products and ideas people wanted to learn about ___________,___________ and _________ | art, Literature, and Science |
| What book did people want to read | Bible |
| These new ideas lead to the new inventions like the ___________,_____________, and _____________ | Compass, astrolabe, printing press |
| The power of the __________ started to weaken because people could read teh Bible. Soon new _________ developed | Churches , religions |
| Manor lords lost power as the _________ ran away to the cities. Power returns to the ___________ | serfs, Kings |
| Define Nationalism | Love and loyalty to your country. |
| As Kings and Queens became more powwerful what did they want to do? | Expand their kingdoms to other parts of the world. |
| What was the purpose of the Crusades | Chirstians trying to take back the hold land from the Arabs |
| WHy did Kings and Queens want to find water routes to Asia? | To expand their kingdoms and to take part of the wealth that came with trading. |
| For many years the ________ controlled the trade from Asia They became very rich ( Monopoly) | Italians |
| Define Monopoly | Totoal control over something |
