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Medieval Ages - Coggle Diagram
Medieval Ages
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.
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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.
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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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