4.1 Leven op het platteland

• Geschiedenis
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 1

Life in the countryside

What was life like in the countryside in the middle ages

The end of the Western Roman Empire

* 476

* Seperate kingdoms 

* Middle ages 500-1500

* Early Middle Ages - Late Middle Ages

Economy

* A lot of wars-> less trade

* Trading with products-> Money dissapeard

* Farmers

 * Cities diassapeard -> Agrarian society

The manor

* Dangerous

* Farmers looked for protection

* Manor

- Powerful Farmer with an army -> The lord of the manor

Unfree farmers

The manor system

Lord

Serfs

Protection

Agricultural land

Part of the harvest

Servile duties

Serfs

* Servile duties -> all kinds of work for the lord of the manor

* Lord decides almost everything for the serfs

* No freedom

Free farmers

* Own land-> Freedom

* Fight for the lord of the manor

* Cost time and money

The Manor

* Demesne = The land were the lord lived

* Farm holdings = The part where the farmers lived

* Wasteland = forests and rivers

 HOFSTELSEL OF DOMEINSTELSEL

The Middle Ages is a period from ....

1. 500-1500
2. 100-1500
3. 0-1500
4. 500-1000

What profession did most people had in the Middle Ages

1. Merchant
2. Slave
3. Farmer
4. Craftsmen

Sefs lived on the Manor

What was an adventage for the serfs to live on a Manor?

Serfs lived on the Manor

What was an disadventage for the serfs to live on a Manor?

Protection

Agricultural land

Servile duties

Part of hte harvest

Serfs

Free farmers

Poor farmers

Rich farmers

Own land

No freedom

Land of the lord

Servile duties

Fight for the lord

Assignments 4.1

Assignments 3, 4, 7, 8,  10 en 11

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