Towns, Thomas

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Medieval Time Period

• Towns, Thomas á Becket, Hundred Years War, War of
  the Roses

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Towns

• Originally most people lived in the country
• The common man worked the fields
• for the lord of the manor.

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Sheep Herding

• People began sheep herding
• They produced the finest wool
• in Europe
• Wool industry thrived

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• Cottages became small mills
• Common people paid the lord
• in cash

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Middle Class

• A whole new class of people emerged
• Merchants grew rich.
• They entered the gentry.
• They developed their own literature, songs drama
  and ballads.
• Mystery and miracle plays, which were
  dramatizations of Biblical stories, were acted
  out in courtyards and inn yards.

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Life in Medieval Times

• Life was austere.
• Travel was difficult and dangerous.
• Little food variety no refrigeration/bleak
  winter diets
• Dress was bright and varied for the nobility

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Entertainment

• Religious festivals
• tournaments

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Thomas á Becket

• Becket and King Henry were friends
• King Henry appointed Becket Archbishop of
  Canterbury
• King Henry hoped to win
• the disputes against the
• church.

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• Becket usually sided with the Pope
• This infuriated King Henry
• Wont someone rid me of this meddlesome priest?

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The Murder of Becket

• Henrys knights murdered Becket on the steps to
  the altar.
• People are outraged
• Henry loses power in the
• church
• This led to corruption in
• the church.

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• Monks lived a life of luxury
• No regard for the poor
• Friars were chasing
• women and accumulating
• and using money
• Some friars were
• threatening people
• with eternal damnation.

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Hundred Years War

• First national war against France
• Yeoman were green-clad archers who shot 3 foot
  arrows with the longbow.
• These arrows could pierce the armor of the
  knights.
• Knights in shining armor no longer represented
  England.
• Longbows and gun powder ended the Medieval Time
  Period.

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Black Death

• Bubonic plague was one of the many plagues that
  swept through Europe.
• It killed more than 1/3 of the population
• Created a labor shortage
• This lack of labor ended feudalism

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War of the Roses

• Civil war in England between the House of York
  and House of Lancaster
• Each house wanted to rule England
• It ended when Henry VII united the families by
  marrying Elizabeth.
• Henry VII founded the Tudor Line of kings.