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Topic 12 Medieval Ages - Coggle Diagram
Topic 12 Medieval Ages
The medieval age is the historical age of a thousand years that Europe and its area of influence lived from the V century to the XV century. It is usually mentioned that it began with the fall of the Roman Empire of the West in the year 476 and that it ended with the discovery of America in 1942.
Lords and Serfs
The feudal lords subdued the inhabitants of their territory and converted them into their serfs. The serfs were not slaves but neither did they possess anything of their own. They were not owners of the land they work for, and the serfs could they abandon it without the permission of the feudal lord. They had to cultivate the fields, deliver to the feudal lord the indicated quantities of grains, meat, etc.
The feudal society was hierarchical, with specific functions for each social class: the monks prayed, the lords made war and the peasants tilled the land.
Lord Feudal castles
Each of these feudal lords lived in a fortified castle and had a small nucleus of permanent officers and soldiers. Generally, castles were built with water moats around them which remained full of water as a defense mechanism. To access the castle there was an elevated bridge and in case of an attack the serfs and their families would take refuge in the castle.
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Monks and Cathedrals
In all these centuries, few people knew how to read and write. Product of ignorance, there were many superstitions. However, in the monasteries they became places of study and diffusion of practices of agriculture, horticulture, and livestock.
Next to it, beautiful cathedrals were built in the Romantic style and then, in the Lower Middle Ages, in the Gothic style. Benito began to form these monasteries, that is why the monks were called Benedectine
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AL ANDALUS
• The Muslims crossed the Strait of Gibraltar in the year 711. After a while, the Arabs occupied the entire Spanish territory, except for the Basque Provinces that were never conquered
• The emirs established the Caliphate of Cordoba, which became a center of commerce and culture, where people from all over Europe came to learn from the Arabs.
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• The confrontations in the peninsula between the Christian kingdoms of the north and Islamic of the south became a war of religion called “The Reconquista” by the Spanish
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