Review Notes

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Review Notes Middle Ages

• A review of Socials 8

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Review Notes Middle Ages

• Europe had two major powers

2. The Feudal System
1. The Roman Catholic Church
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Roman Catholic Church

• The Roman Catholic Church dominated European
  Culture
• God gt Pope gt Cardinals gt Arch Bishop gt Bishop gt
  Priest
• A person could only connect with God through an
  agent of the Church
• To save your soul you needed to pay the Church
  if you had committed a sin Indulgences

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Roman Catholic Church (Contd)

• The Church built large expensive Cathedrals and
  Churches and people knew that the RCC was corrupt
  
• Science was just beginning to give new answers to
  questions about the earth and the universe
• These contradicted the Church
• i.e. Grave Robbers brought bodies to the
  universities to dissect. Church felt this was
  barbaric.

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Da Vinci Vitruvian Man

• Grave Robbers

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Feudal System (aka Monarchy)

• King gt Lord gt Knight gt Vassal gt Commoner gt Serf
• Each group is responsible to the individual above
  with certain services (labour/fighting)
• This was a system for running the land and
  government
• The King was the most powerful lord in the
  country
• Sometimes this was disputed and wars would break
  out

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Key to All Problems

• 1 of the pop was rich and powerful 99 were
  poor and miserable

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So What Was the Result?

• People started thinking that one person could not
  rule over everyone
• They believed it was unjust
• This thinking was led by an emerging middle class
  (merchants, small business owners, traders,
  artisans etc)

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• Church and Feudalism began to attack each other.
  Kings were beginning to take power away from the
  Church. The Church did not like this and
  attempted to stop it.

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Which led to

• Massive change throughout Europe
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