Name: Rachel Reyes

Date: 3/15/12

Period: 3

Life in Medieval Europe Graphic Organizer (Page 1 of 2)

Topic What was this aspect of medieval life like? Dinner was served between 10 a. m. and noon. When prepreations were being made for a feast the lord's kichen was crowded. Weathy people could have a variety of foods with expensive food like sugar, rasins, and wine. The silverware was actually silver. They prayed before eating and the food was layed out was ceremony. There was entrainment and a certain way of eatting each food. The training for knighthood began at an early age and they would be called a squire. He would be taught how to hunt with different animals and was also provided a horse. The ceremony of knighthood was extravagant. Knight would fight each other during tounaments and show repect toward ladies during these. Guilds were organized around a certain craft, there where guilds for bakers, blacksmiths, shoemakers, and more people. There were certain rules set by the guild and where to be obeyed. There where apprentices that would learn a trade and could whipped if they tried to run away. The people in the guilds helped each other. The guild's work was very specified. If they made shoes they could not fix them. This was so there were no disputes between guilds. Every year or possibly more times, the guild had a feast. The peasents worked the land of a fedal lord in exchange for protection where called serfs. Very few peasents were free and most of them were serfs. Their lives were simple and most often uncomforatable and revoled around farming land for the lord. Serfs got very little of what they produced because most of it went toward their protection. The serf's leftover money or crops went to the church. Comparing Medieval Life to Today Dinner is now served, depending on the family, at somewhere around 6 p.m. Ussually the food is made quickly and we expect foods like sugar and rasins. Our silverware is not silver and is called cutlary. Not everyone prays before eating and there is not any ceremony made of laying out the food. For feasts today the food has much more preparation than normal and there is more food and slighty better quality cutlary. Other than that it is normal. Today for our militay service, you can start at 18. After they are acepted into the miliary, they do not have tournomants. For the U.S. women can also fight for their country as well as men. People in the military do not learnhow to hunt, but learn surival skills and are not ussually provided a horse. Today, people work together who have similar jobs in stores. However, it is not as specifyed as in Medival Times. Usually people who work in the same building try to look out for each other and may have a big potluck that would act as a feast in Middle Ages. Stores that sell similar things just try to have a lower price instead of having disputs. If someone is new and learning at the job they are not whipped and people are patient with them. In the U.S. people are all equal so there are no peasents. Every one today in this county is free and is not owned by anyone. Farmers are paid for their crops. Construction workers are the only people who might have some coralation with peasents. They both do the "dirty work" for someone else. For construction workers it is the city and for the peasents it is the lord. The

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Serfs ussually acepted this life because the church gave them hope of salvation and a enjoyable life in heavenif they were obedient. Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine had the idea of adding courtly love to chivalry. This mean that men treat women with complete repect. Most marriges were choosen by the parent or the lord of the manor. The wedding ceremonies were performed in a church ussualy and in it the bride had to bow down to her husband to show her loyalty and willingness to serve them. Even though Eleanor tried to make women more repected, they had very little rights and were considered proprtey of their husbands.

major difference is that construction workers are paid and free and peasents are not paid and very few are free. Today, men are still supposed to be poilte to women but some they are not. In the U.S. you choose if or who you marry. In other counties your dad chooses who you marry. In the U.S. the bride does not bow down to the groom. Women are still disrepected and sterotyped but they have much more rights than in Medival Times. A wife is not concidered the property of their husband.

Name: Rachel Reyes

Date: 3/15/12

Period: 3

Life in Medieval Europe Graphic Organizer (Page 2 of 2)

Business and towns grew in the Middle Ages. Craftspeople sold their goods in town. These craftseople needed merchants to sell their products. The merchants formed guilds to help them grow better at their business. A merchant could be a person who sold goods door to door or, a person who traveled across Europe to trade. The Church put many fines and regulations on the businesspeople but the merchants were still rich. If you were acused of a crime they would test if you were guilty or not by very grusome and brutal ways. One way would be to fight and whoever loses is guilty. Another way was having your hand burnt and if it was not completely healed within three days you were guilty. All the tests were brutal, cruel and unfair. For serios crimes, the person would be killed in public. However, it changed after 1215. The methods of justice used were stoped and replaced by jury trails but the punishments wer still severe even though they were not as cruel. There were different priviges for each of the different classes in Europe. The serfs and the free peasents had to work long hours. In contrast, the nobels had time to do whatever they wanted and create an extrvagant live for themselves. Nobels fished, hunted with falcons, and particapated and wacted tournaments. Most nobel's favorite activity was hunting which both men and women participated in. Nobels also regularly enjoyed lavish feasts and expensive clothing. In the Middle Ages people had no idea how to stop diese from spreading. Most people thought they were caused by evil spirits. Most living conditions were dirty so germs spread quickly. Diease was most likely around people because lice and mites lived in people's hair, there were fleas in their clothes, and other deasies carring insects were all around Today, many people are in debt which makes many business not do so well. The stock marcket sales and prices are gradually going down and the U.S. economy is suffering. Churches do not have regulations and fines on business people. The economy has changed greatly scince the Middle Ages and from right now the Middle Ages might have had a better economy than we have today. Today in the U.S., we have trial by jury instead of the harsh trials and punishments in Medival Times. If someone has a death sentce, many people have looked at the case many times to make sure that person was reponsible for something terrible. This person would not be killed in public if they had the death sentence. Citenzens are choosen to be the jury and listen to the trial. They have a major part in deciding what the punishment is. In the U.S., people are all equal. However, if someone makes more money they live their life more lavishly. Most people already live with entraintment and plenty of food. People still have to work to save for retirement and to pay bills so they do not have as much spare time as nobels did. On the weekends though most people have free time and spend it anyway they want. In the U.S., we have hopitals and have found treatments, cures, and the resons for many illness. We try to make sure the living conditions of everyone are clean. By washing our clothes we make sure the germs and any incect is of them. Today we know that germs cause deise and make sure the places we go

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them.The bubonic plague or the black death was spread easily from person to person in a town. This deaise killed about 1/3 of the population of Europe. Sometimes an entrie village was wipped out and sometimes some famileis escaped the plague. The doctors belived the plague was sent by God as a punishment and many blamed the Jews for their suffering.

are as clean from germs as they can be. Scince Medival Times, knowledge and support of health has improved greatly.