A system of political organization prevailing in medieval Europe
Feudal System
The difference between a serf and a freeman is that a serf lives in the manor and was not allowed to leave his land without permission of the lord. But a Freeman rented land and had freedom to travel wherever he wants to go.
What's the difference between a serf and a freeman?
As towns grew wealth was based off of money rather than land.
What changed as Towns grew?
The sumptuary laws controlled the consumption of how people spent their money.
What are the Sumptuary Laws?
After the crusades European access to the east was restricted unless they wanted trade.
What was restricted after the crusades?
Through Ox, Mule, of Horse on land and by boats overseas.
How were goods transported in Europe?
They bought goods from one place and sold them for more at another place.
How did merchants make money?
The crusades was when the Christians tried to reconquer land the Muslims had taken from them.
What was the crusades?
Some benefits of the Crusades were that Europe had gained spices and new fruits, they also found out that the islamic world is more advanced in education.
What were some benefits of the crusades?
Civic Humanism believed that being a responsible citizen meant education yourself about history and political issues, and working to improve the society.
What does a civic humanist believe in?
Through art.
How could humanists share/show others their ideas?
The steps of the scientific method are, 1. Identify the problem, 2. Gather information, 3. Form a hypothesis, 4. Experiment to test hypothesis, 5. Record data, 6. State conclusion, 7. Repeat.
What was the Scientific Method?
Very little.
How much information did doctors have on medicine,
Merchants.
Who benefitted most from math?
the people got frustrated with the catholic church because the church was abusing its power.
Why did the people get frustrated with the catholic church?
He was a persons who believed that the bible not the church should be the spiritual guid for christians.
Who was Martin Luther?
He got excommunicated and was made an outlaw.
What happened to Martin Luther after writing the Ninety-Five Thesis?
To increase trade, increase gold supply, expand Christianity, expand the known world, and to expand their naval technology.
Why did the Europeans want to explore?
They lived in Tenochtitlan which is in Northern Mexico.
Where did the Aztecs live?
Mountains.
What surrounded the Aztecs?
Mountains were like walls to a fort they gave the Aztecs safety and protection.
What were mountains like for the Aztecs?
By lots of water.
What was Tenochtitlan surrounded by?
They enlarged the amount of land in the lake.
What did Chinampas to the lake around them?
Because it was deeply religious and they thought it was the only way to go to heaven, and the gods would die and get sick without blood.
Why did the Aztecs sacrifice people?
Quetzalcoatl
What was the name of the God of wind?
Huitzilopochtli
Who was the tribal god of the Aztecs?
Nobles and Commoners.
What were the two main classes of the Aztec social hierarchy?
He was known as the great speaker, he was treated as a good and had many responsibilities, he was the head of the state, commander of the army, and was the head priest.
What was the role of the Aztec emperor?
Society was divided into units called calpoli.
What was Aztec society divided into?
It was highly valued and was free for everyone.
What was Aztec education like?
they received all education verbally, all boys were trained for being in the military, the school for commoners was called telpocalli. did not know how to read and write.
How was Aztec education for Commoners.
They learnt about codices and about their society, they learnt to read and write
What was education for nobles like?
The virtues that make a good Aztec citizen are, Self sacrifice, courage, obedience, modesty, and clean living.
What makes a good Aztec citizen?
Laws helped the Aztecs society stay organized, Since nobles were like role models they were more harshly punished if they broke a law.
how were laws important to the Aztecs?
that was a Muslim Spain. in which Muslims had conquered and ruled Spain, the Muslims made Spain part of the words largest economic trading zone.
What was Al-Andalus?
Was when the Christians started moving south and took back their land from the Muslim empire.
What was the reconquista?
They were going to kick out all Jews and Muslims unless they changed religions.
How were the Christians planning on making a Christian Spain?
What happened was that Spain losts its main money makers, it had lost many famous scholars and engineers so they lost lots of money and they needed more.
What happened to Spains wealth after the Spanish inquisition?
He was a Spanish explorer who wanted more land, he joined the expedition to conquer Cuba.
Who was Cortes?
1. To set sail, 2. Meet peacefully with the indigenous people, 3. invite the leader to a gift exchange and force them to convert to christianity, 4, if they did not obey they would fight them, 5. leader would be new governor and indigenous people would be enslaved.