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The middle ages was a crude and ignorant time in history
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True
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Because they used to torture people and hang people. The feudal system explains that people don't have a choice if they are peasants.
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Peasants' lived a life of drudgery and back breaking work
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True
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Because they were servants of the King and Queen. They had to do work for them.
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Poor people were kept in a state of near starvation
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True
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Yes, because they had no money to buy food for themselves let alone their family, and they were not treated as equals.
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Falling in love often led to marriage between peasants and higher classes
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False
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No, because marriage between royals and peasants were not accepted in society.
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The Medieval Period was much more violent than today
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True
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Yes, because they tortured people. Put them in dungeons and hang them. They didn't have a trial to defend their case.
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People didn't bathe and were very smelly
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True
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They did bathe but the water was dirty and they were still smelly after but this more applied to peasants.
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Any brave man could become a knight
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False
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You were chosen to become a knight and you couldn't become one if you wanted to.
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Women were oppressed
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True
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Women were commonly put down because they were not as strong and they could not fight.
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People believed the world was flat
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True
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Because the ground we walk on is flat and they had no astronauts or astronomers back then.
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Capital punishment was common
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True
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They used to punish people alot and torture or sentence them to death.
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