THE END OF FEUDALISM
HUMANITIES 8 – 2013-2014
WHAT ENDED FEUDALISM?
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Changing military technologies and warfare
Changing role of monarchs
Growth of trade
Growth of towns
The Growth of Guilds (merchant and craft)
Rise of a new social group: The Middle Class
Religious heresies
The Black Death (aka The Plague)
The Printing Press
THE LATE MIDDLE AGES
LONDON, 1400
PETER BRUEGHEL (PAINTER), 15TH CENTURY TOWN
SIENNA, ITALY (FRESCO)
SIENNA, ITALY
SIENNA, MEDIEVAL CITY
SIENNA
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WHAT YOU NEED TO DO:
• Make sure you have written the
list of items that contributed to
the End of Feudalism.
• Trade and Towns: answer
Question 2 a) and b) on page
155.
• List all the characteristics of
medieval towns you can and
include what having a town
charter means to the people of
the town. Who governed the
town?
• Guilds: answer Question 4 on
page 155. Include 7 facts about
craft guilds: 5 about what they
did and 2 about their rules. (151)
• The Middle Class: answer Q. 7
on page 155. (154-155)
In summary: page 155, Question 2
a) b), list of characteristics of
medieval town; page 155,
Question 4, including 7 facts, and
Q. 7