SOCIETY
IN THE MIDDLE AGES
During the Middle
Ages the entertainment available depended greatly on which social
class you were born into (except the clergy).
POPULATION
Feudal
System: it began in the 9th century.
Social
Classes:
The King was on the top of the social system, other social classes were:
1.
The nobility/ military.
2.
The clergy/ religious.
3.
The peasants/ farmers.*
*It is the largest
group and they worked to provide for the other two groups.
The nobility and
the clergy were privileged classes, because they didn't work, they
didn't pay taxes...
The peasants didn't
have privileges.
Feudalism was the
main political, social and economic system in Western Europe during
the period from the ninth to the thirteenth century.
The lord of the
fief would protect the peasants, but in return he took over the land,
charged the peasants taxes and was charge of justice.
The system of
feudalism extended throughout Europe from the coasts of the North Sea
to the Mediterranean and from the Atlantic coasts to the Russian
plains.
The land was
divided into many kingdoms and there, there were kings to govern over
all the territory.
THE SOCIAL
CLASSES
Work done by: Elena González, María Marín, Alicia González, Alicia Fernández and Pilar Fernández. (1C)
