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Medieval Ages
The feudal society
Feudalism: Economic, political and social system based on the production of lands or fiefs, under a set of cooperation and protection agreements.
Undergrowth: Usually refers to the vegetation in the lower part of a forest, which can obstruct passage through the forest.
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THE CRUSADES
The Islamic expansion seriously worried the Christian countries. Therefore, the popes encouraged the crusades, a military and religious movement of Latin or Western Christianity that, between the XI and XIII centuries, they made wars to maintain control of the so-called Holy Land.
Middle 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.
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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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End of the Middle Ages
Orthodox: It is called like this the Christian confessions of the East that maintain very old traditions.
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