Middle Ages

Middle Ages

The Feudal System
1. William grants land to the barons
  1. The Barons in return promised knights for 40 days a year service
    1. They grant land to the knights who agree to serve for 40 days
      1. they grant land to the peasants who provide services and payments
        raising money
        Keeping law and order as everyone is happy
      2. raising an army
    2. raising an army
  2. rewarding his followers
2. Reprocity system
The Battle of Stamford Bridge and Hastings
The Black Death
1. spread from asia to europe then to england
  1. half of england's population died
2. continous fever and spitting blood,suffering breathing,tumors, apostumes and carbuncles on the armpits and the groin.
  1. from this one died in five days
  2. cannot live beyond two to three days
  3. grew as big as an apple
  4. black spots on arm or thigh
  5. anyone who is infected dies and who sees him in sickness;dies soon
3. Bubonic plague
  1. The germ is carried through the bloodstream of rats
    1. The fleas which bite the rats become infected and move on to find more food and eventually bite the humans
      1. These fleas multiply in warm weather and die off in cold; so this plague doesn't spread widely in winter
        Sufferers have a fever and buboes(swellings) in the groin and armpits
        About 70% of patients die and take four to seven days to die.
        Their blood is not infected enough to infect more fleas.
4. Pneumonic plague
  1. Caught through breathing, patients cough blood and spray out germs every time.
  2. Attacks lungs
  3. It kills everyone infected within two days
  4. Isn't affected by weather or climate.
5. Doctors did not know about germs spreading disease
The Domesday Book
1. the Ely inquiry
  1. what the manor was called
    1. who held it in the time of King Edward
      1. who holds it now
        how many hides
        how many ploughs
        how many villiens
        how many cottars
        how many slaves
        how many freemen
        how much woodland
        how many mills
        how much meadow
        what the estate is worth now
  2. survey that checked all this information to see if people were paying the right tax
    1. this survey caused many riots, but collected information from over 13,000 villages this information was written down in the domesday book
The succession of Edward the Confessor

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