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• High Middle Ages


  Characterized by the growth of towns and decline of feudalism
• Reasons for the decline of feudalism

  • Increased food supply
  • Population increase
• Plow and conar harness


  • Invented
• Three-field System


  1. Land divided into 3 parts

  2. 1st and 2nd parts planted

  3. 3rd part left unseeded and tilled
• Trade


  Key to a town's survival
• Types of trade

  • Local
  • Long distance
• Bourgeoisie


  Middle class (Merchants and bankers)
• Guilds


  • European traders who sold and made similar goods
  • Objective to secure the interests of its members and their products
  • Accomplishments: regulation of prices, limitation of foreign trade, and preservation of quality of products of its members
• Fairs


  Meeting place for traders and investors
• Because of fairs, the economy of Europe became lively
• Money-based Economy


  Appeared because of the impracticality and limitations of barter system
• Bankers


  Appeared because money varied in different towns
• The year universities were established

  1150
• University in Bologna


  • Focused on Medicine and law
• University in Paris


  • Focused on liberal arts and theology
• Scholasticism


  The application of Aristotle's philosophy in answering questions related to theology
• Leading scholastics

  • Peter Abelard
  • Thomas Aquinas
• Beowulf


  The name of the Anglo-Saxon warrior who slayed a monster named Grendel, shows the life in northern Europe during the war
• Song of Roland


  A French epic which centers on the valor of Charlemagne's knights as they protected Christianity
• Divine Comedy


  An epic poem about a journey to hell to heaven
• Dante Alighieri


  The one who wrote Divine Comedy
• Canterbury Tales


  A collection of stories about a group of pilgrims on their way to Canterbury Shrine in England
• Geoffrey Chaucer


  The one who wrote Canterbury Tales