UNIT 5: EMERGENCE OF MODERN EUROPE SSWH7 The student will analyze European medieval society with regard to culture, politics, society, and economics.

a. Explain the manorial system and feudalism; include the status of peasants and feudal monarchies and the importance of Charlemagne. b. Describe the political impact of Christianity; include Pope Gregory VII and King Henry IV. c. Explain the role of the church in medieval society. d. Describe how increasing trade led to the growth of towns and cities.

REMEMBER THE RELIGIONS REMEMBER THE UNITS REMEMBER SPECIFIC PEOPLE

ECONOMICS AND POLITICS MANORIALISM FEUDALISM WHAT DO YOU KNOW? WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE EMERGENCE OF MODERN EUROPE? WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT EUROPE?

EUROPE, 800

EUROPE, 900

EUROPE, 1000

ECO AND POL MANORIALISM political, economic, and social system by which the peasants of medieval Europe were rendered dependent on their land and on their lord

Its basic unit was the manor, a self-sufficient landed estate, or fief under the control of a lord who enjoyed a variety of rights over it and the peasants attached to it by means of serfdom made feudalism possible Peasants worked the land for lords and had few rights

FEUDALISM Feudalism was a set of legal and military customs ( A KIND OF POLITICAL SYSTEM) in medieval Europe that flourished between the 9th and 15th centuries, which, broadly defined, was a system for structuring society around relationships derived from the holding of land in exchange for service or labour.

The Middle Ages The Middle Ages period of European history encompassing the 5th to the 15th centuries from the collapse of the Western Roman Empire until the beginning of the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery ushered in the Modern Era.

after AD 1000, the population of Europe increased greatly as technological and agricultural innovations allowed trade to flourish and crop yields to increase Manorialism — the organization of peasants into villages that owed rent and labor services to the nobles feudalism — the political structure whereby knights and lower-status nobles owed military service to their overlords, in return for the right to rent from lands and manors two of the ways society was organized in the High Middle Ages. Kingdoms became more centralized after CHARLEMANGE

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