Download WHPP Unit 2 Section 4 Feudalism to Royal Power Grows

From Feudalism to
Economic Expansion and
Change
Unit 2 Section 4
Essential Standards: How do religions influence
political power and create cultural unity in European
Regions?
I can: identify how all religions are similar. I can trace
& give examples of how beliefs influence actions.
Question of the Day 9
A study of Aztec, Maya, and Inca agricultural
systems would show that these civilizations
(1) relied on mechanized agricultural
techniques
(2) carried on extensive food trade with each
other
(3) adapted to their environments with creative
farming techniques
(4) relied on a single-crop economy
The Manor Economy
The manor heart of the medieval
economy. Peasants (serf) & lords
were bound by mutual obligation
(military service-serf, protectionlord).
 Feudalism
 Lords divided their land among
lesser lords. Exchange, vassals,
pledged service to the greater lord
(feudal contract). Powerful lords
granted his vassal a fief (track of
land).

Agricultural Revolution
three-field system ( 1 field
grain, 1 legumes, 1 fallow)
 Pop. explosion: b/w 1000
& 1300, pop. of doubled.
 Trade in Medieval
Europe, 1000–1300
 trade increased
 Trade fairs (rivers) cities
developed as small centers
of trade

A Commercial Revolution

Reintro. of money develop new business
practices,:
 banks
 partnerships
 bill
of exchange
Social Changes Due to Commercial Rev.
 Peasants became tenant farmers.
 New middle class of merchants & traders
 Usury lending money at interest. (Jews
only).

Guilds
Merchants & artisans formed associations
called guilds.
 Dominated town life, passing laws, and
levying taxes.
 Becoming a guild member:
 First had to become an apprentice,
trainee, to a guild master (@ 7 yrs.)
 Later journeymen, salaried workers.

Royal Power Grows
(1050–1450)
Monarchs, Nobles, and the
Church
Monarchs
limited power.
Monarchs expand their power:
 royal
courts
 taxation
 standing armies
 ties w/the middle class

 Henry
II claimed the right to try
clergy in royal courts.
 Thomas Becket, archbishop of
Canterbury, opposed the king.
 King John lost Normandy to the
Phillip II. Innocent III had him
excommunicated & placed England
under the interdict.
Successful Monarchs in France
Philip II (Phillip
CapetiansAugustus)
Hugh Capet


throne hereditary
effective
bureaucracy
 standing
army
 Sent knights to help the
pope
Louis IX (King and
Saint)
 Ended
serfdom
centralized monarchy
Philip IV
 Clashed
w/ Pope
Boniface over taxing
the clergy.
 Estates General:
never gained the
“power of the purse.”