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Medieval Europe Year 8 - Coggle Diagram

- - - - The worth of the labourers and their services went up as well as their wages in a desperate attempt to have enough workers to produce food
  - - - Workers had to do more work to make up for all the sick and dead workers
      - Food shortages because there aren't enough workers to look after the land
    - - Workers could demand more for their labour
      - The feudal system collapsed
- - - - Theft is when you take something without the permission of the owner and fail to return it.
    - - Murder is when you kill someone on purpose
    - - Treason is when you plot or speak against the monarchy or church (planning to kill a monarch)
    - - Hersey is when a person does not follow the same religion that is set for that place (anyone who was not Christian)
    - - Adultery's is now when you would cheat on your partner
    - - Arson is when someone purposely sets fire to something
  - - - Humiliating and painful, this punishment was something of an endurance test where the victim would be hooked into a neck device, either made of wood or metal or wood, which prevented the victim from adjusting into a comfortable position.
    - - The victim was forced to sit on a sharp thick pole. When the pole was upright, the victim was let to slide down the pole with their own body weight. It could take the victim 3 days to die using this method.
      - The favoured method of execution by Vlad the Impaler in 15th century Romania and it has been said that Vlad once did this to 20,000 people all while enjoying a meal.
    - - Hanged, drawn and quartered was given to people who committed treason, they hang you but before you die they quickly untie you and tie you to horses and drag you around the city, after that they take you to the city centre and take your bowels out, they then (if a man) they cut your genitalia off and burn it in front of you then they cut your limbs then behead you.
    - - Designed to dislocate every joint of the victim's body, it was believed to be the most painful form of medieval torture. This torture device was made out of a wooden frame with two ropes fixed to the bottom and the other two tied into the handle on top. Once the victim was bound and placed on top of the rack, the torturer would proceed to turn the handle.
      - Designed to dislocate every joint of the victim's body, it was believed to be the most painful form of medieval torture.
    - - This torture device consisted of an iron cabinet with a hinged front and covered spike interior, sufficient enough to enclose a human being. Once inside its conical frame, the victim would be unable to move due to the great number of steel spikes impaling them from every direction. The interrogator would scream questions at the victim while poking them with jabbed edges.
    - - Being burnt at the stake is when you get tied to a pole and you get set on fire, this is an event done publicly this was given to people accused of black magic
    - - This method involved placing the victim inside a metal cage roughly the size of the human body. The tortures also forced overweight victims into small cages to heighten their discomfort as they hung from a tree or gallows. Generally, they would be let there until the crows came to feast on their remains.
      - The most preferred torture technique in the Middle Ages.
- - - - Serfs were "owned" by a noble and is bound to the land
      - They did all of the work which genrally had something to do with farming
  - - - The Pope was easily the most powerful person in Medieval kingdoms
      - They could say anything and use the excuse of it being the word of God
      - The Pope was the head of a church
    - - Everyone believed in God
      - The lives of everyone was dictated by how the church manipulated the idea of God
    - - Higher clergy
        
        The higher clergy were sons of wealthy nobles who enjoyed lavish lifestyles as leaders of large churches called cathedrals
        
        The higher clergy were referred to as bishops
      - Lower clergy
        
        The lower clergy was incharge of taking care of the village and as priest worked fact to face with peasants.