The High Middle Ages

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The High Middle Ages

• 1000 AD -1300 AD

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High Middle Ages characterized by

• Farming was improving Iron Plow, Harness
  (replaced the Yoke) for Horse, which led to more
  food be produced on less land, creating a food
  surplus, which frees up more people to do other
  things than grow food.

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Middle Ages

• 2. Revival of learning Begin to build schools
  again called colleges, people outside of church
  began learning to read and write again, and
  townsmen began benefiting most from this.
• Only wealthy clergy and nobility went to colleges

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High Middle Ages

• 3. Revival of Towns and Trade People begin to
  trade excess goods and towns become an important
  part of society

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High Middle Ages

• 4. Formation of nation-states(countries)
• Small countries begin to form, grow and gain
  power

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High Middle Ages

• 5. Feudalism begins to decline and a new
  economic system based on trade and money(market
  economy, capitalism) is being born.

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Decline of Feudalism

• 3 Readings/Handouts
• The Crusades(Book pg. 282-285)
• 1.What were the crusades?
• Who was involved? Who Fought?
• When did they fight? What fighting for?
• 2.Who/What are the major people/events of the
  Crusades?
• What were the effects of the crusades?
• -Feudalism? -growth of trade and towns?
• -European knowledge and technology?
• The Hundred Years War (HO)
• The Black Death (HO)