key medieval features of life
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- key medieval features of life
- The church
- Was a great influence over everyone's ideas.
- Attitudes
- Everyone was taught to respect the Bible
- Were not encouraged to think for themselves or challenge traditional ideas
- Everyone was taught to respect the Bible
- The king & his government
- King defended his people
- Taxes raised to pay for wars
- Local councils job was to keep the streets clean and the people healthy
- Little money to do this
- Work & harvest
- 90% of people worked as farmers
- Hard, constant backbreaking work
- Little time for education & reading
- Hard, constant backbreaking work
- 90% of people worked as farmers
- Food supplies & transport
- Animals were taken into town to be killed
- The dung and meat created a lot of dirt in the streets
- Horses were the biggest form of transport
- Added to dirt in the streets
- Animals were taken into town to be killed
- Communicate
- printing-1470's- until then people had to write out books by hand
- Not many books so not much knowledge was spread
- printing-1470's- until then people had to write out books by hand
- Education
- controlled by the church- Universities
- 50% of people in a town could read
- The church
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