Medieval+Life

**__Medieval Life__** **Peasants** Peasants in the Middle Ages lived in a very sad and torturing way. They were practically slaves, the do a treaty with the Lord and the Lord give them a piece of land so the can work on it, but all the products of the land were property of the Lord, they gave all the products to the Lord. So basically why do they work for? If all of there hard work is property to the Lord. The way they lived was a very torturing way. They had a room for all of the family that was the 1/3 of our classroom and when it was cold outside the cows and animals needed to go inside, so they wouldn’t die. They wake up at 3 am and they have a disgusting breakfast, when finish they started working on their lands. Showers didn’t exist, you were lucky if you could shower twrice a year, people stink and that’s why the higiene was really bad, when they finish doing what they needed to do in the bathroom they trought the left overs outside of the window. The feudal was really smelly. **Women.** Mens were the potencial in this time. Medieval ages was a “mens age” all was about men, men were ther only thing important. The women were bad treated there husbands hit them and the could do whatever they wanted to do with the women. They would marry at age of 13-14 and they have a husband 10 years older. The lif e  espectacy was 30 years.

**Feudalism:**
A new system developed after the fall of the Roman empire, feudalism. It developed in westen Europe. Feudalism was a high decentrilized manual protection between monarchs and nobles of varying degrees of power. Basicaly it was a system that had a mutal dependece between social classes. For example, the lords divided the land in several small pieces that would then be assigned to peasents to work on it. Peasents would work on the land in exchange of protection, they would give the most part of the crops that they raised to their lord. Feudalism was spread out in western Europe in the A.D mid-1000's.

**Work In Medieval Times:**  The life in the medieval times was very harsh even though you were part of the nobility. If you were a peasant and you lived in the manor you will worked about 12 hours each day and 6 days each week. Men worked in the fields so they will have food (part of the crops went to the lord or king) while the woman collected crops, worked in the fields and they also did some house work. If you were part of the nobility (Lord, ladies and knights) you will have a different roll. Knights didn’t work the land because the lord allowed peasants to live in the manor in exchange of work so peasants will work the land. Knights were given land by the lord in exchange of protection so each time there was a war knights went to the war. 