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Three-field System
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A process of farming where a village's fields are divided in three, and in one part a certain crop is planted, in another part a different crop is planted, and the third field is left fallow. The fields were rotated each year.
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Feudalism
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A way of carrying on a sort of government in Europe on a local basis, where no organized state existed (after the fall of Charlemagne's Empire)
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Lord/vassal
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The basics of feudalism; the lord offered the vassal protection in exchange for the vassal working his fields.
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Serfdom
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Peasants who were bound to the land; who could not leave the manor without the lord's permission
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Hanse
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An alliance of German towns that joined forces to fight common enemies. The Hanse fought wars under its own banner, and dominated the commerce of the North Sea and the Baltic until after 1300
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corporate liberties
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Liberties won by the towns. People in towns did not possess individual rights, but only rights which followed from being a resident of a particular town
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guilds
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Associations formed by merchants and craftsmen that supervised the affairs of a specific trade or craft
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Magna Carta
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Signed by King John when a group of English Lords and high Churchmen, joined by representatives from London, required him to confirm and guarantee their historic liberties
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three estates
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the first/highest estate was the clergy, the second was the noble, and the third estate was the burghers of the chartered towns
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Parliament/House of Commons
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House of Commons was made up of "knights and burgesses", or gentry and townspeople.
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House of Lords
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Included both great prelates, and lay magnates. Not for the common people
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gentry
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the rich and the nobility, but in the House of Commons
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