Chapter 10 Europe in the Middle AgesSection 1: Peasants, Trade and Cities

The New Agriculture

List all the new farming methods listed in the passage. (tools & techniques)How did Mother Nature assist in food production?

What was the political change that helped with food production?How were villages able to afford a Carruca?

The Manorial System

What is the difference between a peasant and a serf?Peasant or serf: List what they had to do for the lord or the church.

List the legal authority lords had over serfs or peasants.The Peasant Household

Describe the Peasant cottageCycle of Labor

List the Peasant/serf tasks by month.How did the church help provide peasants with time off?

Describe the typical priest of the time.Describe peasant women’s role in the feudal society.

Food and DrinkWhat was the staple of the diet?

How often did they eat meat?How did they deal with the poor water quality?

Revival of Trade

List the important cities, and the league of this revival.What did the Counts of Champagne do to encourage trade?

What is a money economy? What system did it replace?What is commercial capitalism?

The Growth of Cities

Why did the Artisans and crafts people follow the merchants to the cities.

How did merchants create new cities in Europe?How did the word bourgeoisie evolve into a term to describe the

merchant class?Give examples of the population differences of European towns to Arab

Cities.What changed between the lord and the townspeople? Were the lords

able to treat townspeople like serfs? Explain.How did the townspeople earn this freedom?

How could a serf achieve freedom?

Who were the citizens of these towns?What class did the patricians come from? How did they hold onto power?

City LifeList the multiple negatives of Medieval Cities.

How were women able to lead more independent lives in the cities?Industry and Guilds

InfographicsList the advantages of guilds. How did they help improve the lives of medieval

people?What is a guild?

Explain the concept of apprentice, journeyman, and the masterpiece.

Section 2 Medieval ChristianityThe Papal Monarchy

How did the church become increasingly more involved in the feudal system?

Reform of the papacy

What is lay investiture?What was the alternative to lay investiture that was proposed by Gregory VII?

How was Henry IV threatened by the elimination of lay investiture?

What was the Concordat of Worms?What was the compromise?

Infographics: The Investiture ControversyThe controversy was a struggle between the church and who?

The church supremeUnder which pope did the church reach it height of political

power?What spiritual weapons did he use to achieve his political ends?

New Religious OrdersA New Activism

Who were the Cistercians? Why were they unhappy?How did they interact with the people?

Women in Religious OrdersWhere did the women who joined religious orders come from?

What was their background?Who was Hildegard of Bingen?

Franciscans and Dominicans

Who was Francis of Assisi?Describe the order’s beliefs.Infographics: The Inquisition

What is a pilloryWhat are the unique characteristics of the Spanish Inquisition?

What is heresy?What was the mission of the Dominicans?

The InquisitionWhat did the church create that was called the Inquisition?

What were people called who committed heresy?How did the inquisition extract confessions after 1252?

What happened to those who “relapsed”?How did 13th century Christians justify using force?

Religion in the High Middle AgesWhy were saints popular with the people?

Why was Mary regarded as important?What is a relic? What did people believe about relics?

Why was a pilgrimage important? Which pilgrimage was the greatest?