Life in middle ages
Background
Women
Occupations
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- based on wealth, power, and status
- formed small communities
- Feudalistic society
- peasants at bottom of society, kings and nobles on top
- caste system
- began with collapse of the western roman empire
- strongly influenced by roman catholics
- divided into 3 parts
-early, high, late
- no significant roles in the country
- paid and treated far less than men
- 90% lived in rural areas
- couldn't marry w/o parental consent
- 40 yr life expectancy
- most die during childbirth (20%), was their main role in society to have children
- clergy- church officials
- nobility
- merchants
- craftsman/laborers
- guilds- bands of men and women that gathered together for protection
- most important
- armover
- blacksmith
- banker
- physician
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