During the high Middle Ages, the Roman Catholic Church became organized into an elaborate hierarchy with the pope as the head in Western Europe. ... " ("Church and the Middle Ages"). ... Barons were servants of the lord; they were given manors to live within the province of the lords. Also Barons were in charge of watching over the lord's manor and the crops. ... Peasants were the lowest social class during the Middle Ages. ...

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Serfs lived on a manor that belonged to a Lord. ... Serfs paid high prices to live in that manor. ... In conclusion, the Middle ages may have been a time of growth but the bad out weighs the good. ... Middle ages had declined in population which led to even more of a decline. Basically, the Middle ages had a plague all through this time....

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Each era had their social classes: the higher class of the kings and queens, middle class of the merchants and bourgeoisie, and lower class of homely peasants. ... One might think that because of these long hours, wages would be increasingly high. ... Death rates were very high in the factories. ... These huts were only one story high and came in bunches in villages. ... Everyone and everything lived their entire lives on the manor. ...

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-Which of the following people was chiefly responsible for increasing the Church's secular role during the middle Ages? ... -In the feudal system, a manor was a lord's estate. ... -private armies,saddles,stirrups,armor,high flying missiles. ... -All of the following could be said about the tournaments held in the middle ages EXCEPT that they were free of actual bloodshed. ... ~Tried to win pope's forgiveness-Henry IV travels to Canossa-most dramatic confrontation of the middle ages....

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Stills/Johnson does have a certain set of hours in which she sees students because she has pre-school aged students and she has to go to them while they are at the school. ... Stills/Johnson, she told me that she has to deal with the student's family all the time, all day long everyday because she only deals with preschool age children. ...

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The Renaissance was drastically different from the Middle Ages. ... Although the Renaissance used Oligarchy as its form of government the pope was still in high power. ... People lived in small communities called manors, that provided protection and defense . ... He mentions how corrupt the roman catholic church had become during the middle ages, he writes about the high taxes given to build the popes castle instead of being given to the poor and the sale of indulgences. ... This money than went to building castles and churches, much like the high taxes. ...

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The three social classes (upper, middle, and lower) represent a pressure cooker. ... It is the middle and upper classes job to "keep the lid on". ... Because of high inflation, unemployment, and famine, many of the French people were starving. ... Peasants in the countryside burned manor houses in order to destroy feudal tax lists. ... Napoleon died in in 1821 at the age of 51. ...

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In the middle Ages, alchemists strived to find, "The Philosopher's Stone- which is a fabled stone that had the capability of turning base metals into gold. ... Thus we see a full circle formed, with the transmutation of elements possible in the Middle Ages, the non transmutation of elements in the beginnings of the capitalist age, and back to the transmutation of elements in the 20th century. ... Feudalism increased rapidly, from tribal size to that of a kingdom, and became more complicated and organized, with the kingdom divided into manors, owned by the manor lords, who divided it a...

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The concept of feudalism has dominated much of the research and study of Europe during the Middle Ages. ... By the High Middle Ages (about 1000 C.E.), much of Europe had developed a variation of this system of feudalism. ... An increase in communication broke down the isolated manor, supported the rise of towns and helped to facilitate the emergence of the burgess class. ...

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Serfdom is a labor system under which most European agricultural workers lived during the Middle Ages. ... High platforms over the stove and along the walls were built for the people to sleep on (Hoch, p.61). ... The serfs had to live in such horrible and unsuitable conditions, yet, the masters forced them to pay ridiculously high taxes for the land they worked and lived on. ... They also had to pay fines for inheritance, for having children leave the manor, and for having a son leave the manor to become a priest or monk. ... This however, is based on children that have reached the working age...

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In the middle of her carrier she moved with her children to the United States, where she had to prove herself once again. ... Karen knew at age 12 she wanted to study medicine, and after promising her father that she would ask for nothing else from him, he agreed to pay for her to go to the Realgymnasium. Realgymnasium is like high school and two years of college (O'Conneil, 1980). ... In order to develop each in a healthy manor person needs to have a balance of love and friction or frustration. ...

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The Italians, through organization and cleverness exploited their advantages, and by the high Middle Ages strong, wealthy and independent city-states, unlike the manors of Europe, had evolved. ... He is seen as the writer who most clearly had one foot in the Middle Ages and the other in the Renaissance. ...

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Media critic Richard Harwood points out that the "Golden Age" for diversity in American press was the period from 1880 to 1930. ... They have always broadcast middle-of-the-road programming that would reach the largest possible audience. ...

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The Iron Age peoples of Ancient Britain fortified hilltops with massive earthworks, such as Maiden Castle in Dorset, for tribal defense. ... Castles were the product of that period of Medieval history termed the Age of Feudalism. ... This process was repeated all the way down the pyramid to the knight who was the local lord of the manor. ...

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