Life in the Medieval Ages

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Life in the Medieval Ages
By Holly Sultze
Miss Johnson Hour 7
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The Castle

• The entrance had machicolations, which were
  holes in the floor or wall that dropped hot oil,
  stones, weapons, etc. for invaders (2)
• The walls were about
  a couple meters thick (2)
• The Lord and his family
  were usually the only ones
  with a sufficient amount of
  heat the rest of the castle was dark and cold
  (1)
• Jesters or musicians often came to entertain the
  castles residence (book)
• The castles were not made for comfort they were
  made for safety (1)
• The castle was surrounded by a mote to keep
  invaders out (book)

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The Church

• Dominates everybodys life (3)
• All people, no matter who they were, believed
  that heaven, hell, and god all existed (3)
• People were taught that the only way to get to
  heaven was if the Roman Catholic Church let them
  (3)
• Tithes could be paid in either money or their
  produce they mostly paid with their produce due
  to the lack of money they had (3)
• The tithes would be kept in a tithe barn, and
  the produce would be eaten by rats, or poisoned
  by their urine (3)

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The Church continued...

• The people also had to pay for baptisms,
  marriages, and burials
• If you were not baptized, then you couldnt go
  to heaven when you died
• If you were not buried on holy land your soul
  would not go to heaven

• Peasants worked for the church for free (3)
• Peasants paid 10 of what they earned a year to
  the church this was called tithes (3)
• The church would not have to pay taxes

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Peasants Homes

• The homes were usually called crucks (3)
• No more than 2 rooms big (3)
• Frame of the house was mad out of a mixture
  between mud, straw, and manure (3)
• Homes were cold, dark, and, damp sometimes it
  was better to be outside, rather than inside (4)
• If there were windows, they would be very small
  openings (4)
• The small size of the windows allowed people to
  look outside, and keeping people from looking
  inside (4)

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