Europe 500-1450 (Medieval Times)

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I. Political, Social, Economic Decline
The amount of land under cultivation declined, long distance trade dried up as roads fell into despair, the money economy was replaced with _____.

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barter

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I. Political, Social, Economic Decline
____ and warfare reduced Europe's population by more than 25 percent.

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disease

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I. Political, Social, Economic Decline
Large scale centralized government disappeared; eventually, ____ states developed but western Europe would never be united a sit was under the Roman Empire.

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regional

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II. Charlemagne 768-814
A. Holy Roman Empire
______ ruled what is now France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and parts of Germany, Austria, and Italy.

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Charlemagne

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II. Charlemagne 768-814
A. Holy Roman Empire
In 800 the Catholic Church, which dreamed of restablishing the Roman Empire under their leadership gave him the title of ________.

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Holy Roman Emperor

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II. Charlemagne 768-814
B. Breakup of HRE
In 843 Charlemagne's grandsons divided his kingdom into _____ parts.

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three

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III. Feudalism
A. Definition

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the system of obligations between medieval nobles; political, social, and economic power was controlled by a warrior land-owning aristocracy.

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III. Feudalism
B. Basic Exchange
The basic exchange in feudalism was ____ and the labor of the peasants for military service.

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land

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III. Feudalism
B. Basic Exchange
The land was called a ____. It would consist of several individual farms called manors.

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fief

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III. Feudalism
B. Basic Exchange
The feudal obligations were hereditary and went to the oldest son. If a vassal died without heirs, the fief reverted to the ___.

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lord

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III. Feudalism
B. Basic Exchange
Vassals had to pay for the knighting of the lord's oldest ___ and for the wedding of his oldest daughter. When a vassal died his heir had to pay one year's income from the fief to renew the manor's contract.

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son

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III. Feudalism
C. Decentralized Authority
Vassals subdivided their land among lower ranking nobles who divided their land until there were layers of nobles. Because a vassal only owed allegiance to his lord, there was no _____ authority or loyalty to a nation.

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centralized

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Obligations of Peasants

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(1)Work three days per week on the land set aside for the noble. The peasants were not paid and all of that crop belonged to the noble.
(2)The peasants had to do additional work such as building roads.
(3)They worked three days per week on the land set aside for them. They had to pay 1/3 of their crop to nobles as rent.
(4)The peasants had to pay to use the mill to make flour an dthe ovens to bake bread.
(5)Peasant families had to pay a fee if a peasant woman married outside the manor and when the head of a peasant family died, his family had to pay a fee to renew the manor contract.