Europe in the Middle Ages: Advances in Farming, Industry, and Trade
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Chapter 10. Europe in the Middle Ages(The High Middle Ages) 1000-1500
CHAPTER 10 – Learning Objectives • I can: • 10.1 • 1. Describe advances if farming, industry, the manorial system and the rise of cities. • 10.2 • Explain how the church influenced the life of women in the Middle Ages • Describe the reforms made by the Church that affected the development of medieval civilization. • 10.3 • Explain the significance of the invention of the flying buttress in architecture. • Explain how Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologica reflected a changing view of the university in medieval Europe. • 10.4 • Identify the economic consequences of the Black Death. • Explain why the Hundred Years’ War was a turning point in the ways of warfare.
Horses replace oxen • New horsecollar, shoes • Faster than oxen
Result: more land cultivated, more food, better diet • Population explosion!
1. Basic economic unit of the Middle Ages • 2. Everything owned by the lord (mills, ovens, churches etc.)
4. Serfs (60% of Europe by 800) and Peasants paid for use of land with service and percentage of crops
Diet usually adequate • Lots of bread • Little Meat • LOTS of beer and wine (monks got 3 gallons of ale per day)
Fairs broke down independence • Great Fairs in Cathedral towns • Local Fairs in small towns
Montagnana, Italy 45 Towns Grew
1. Increased population • 2. Serfs fled manors • 3. Fair and Pilgrim centers
Carcassonne, France 4. Usually walled for defense
The Hanseatic League http://encarta.msn.com/index/conciseindex/20/MediaMax.asp?pg=3&ti=761559716&idx=461547227
Powerful trading league of German cities controlled trade in Northern Europe
Venice • Florence
Dyer’s Guild4 Guilds