HOMEWORKS SUBJECT 2 THE FEUDALISM 2º ESO

1. Departamento de Geografía e Historia
UNIT 2. THE FEUDALISM.
KEYS FOR THE EXAM (you have to know…):
- Define:
• Middle Age:
• Manor (Feudo):
• Feudalism:
• Estamento:
• Servant:
• Subsistence:
• Tithe (Diezmo):
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• Crusades:
• Holy Land:
• Transept:
• Apse (ábside):
• Ambulatory (Girola):
• Pantocrator:
• Hieratic:
- Explain the differences between:
• Make (Marca) and county (Condado):
• Reserve Manor (Reserva sensorial) and gentle (Manso):
• Regular clergy and secular clergy:
- Compare the characteristics of a stratified society (Sociedad
estamental) with current society.
- List and summarize in a diagram the causes of Feudalism.
- List or summarize in a diagram the privileges of nobility and clergy.
- Explain the importance of the medieval church.
- Explain who was and did Charlemagne.
- Built a feudal pyramid.
- Identify in a picture a cannon arc (Arco de cañón).
- Identify, in a picture of a Manor, the book stately, the gentle…
- Point in a map the Carolingian territory.
- Point in a picture the parts of a medieval building (church or monastery):
buttress (Contrafuerte), cloister (Claustro)…

2. Departamento de Geografía e Historia
ACTIVITIES: CAROLINGIAN EMPIRE.
1. Define: What is the middle age?
2. Write the Germanic peoples who settled in the following modern
countries.
3. Answer the questions about the map of Carolingian Empire.
a) On what modern countries the Carolingian Empire extended?
b) Did it get Spanish territory? Which ones?
c) Explain the differences between Make (Marca) and county (Condado).
d) What happened with the Carolingian territories at the End?
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3. Departamento de Geografía e Historia
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ACTIVITIES: CHARLEMAGNE.
1. Investigate and make a PowerPoint presentation about the character
Charlemagne: [This exercise is voluntary]
2. Work in the biography of Charlemagne.
a) Complete the family tree.
b) Indicate if the sentences about Charlemagne are true or false.
True (T)
or False (F)?
a) He defeated the Emir of Córdoba and dominated Al Andalus
b) He reinforced the power of the Carolingian Dinasty
c) He was crowned Emperor at Aachen (Aquisgrán) in 732.
d) He established his imperial residence in Paris
3. Complete the diagram below about the origin of Feudalism.
4. What is Feudalism?

4. Departamento de Geografía e Historia
ACTIVITIES: THE STRATIFIED SOCIETY (SOC. ESTAMENTAL).
1. Define:
a) Estamento:
b) Torre del Homenaje:
2. Complete the diagrams in your notebook. [look at the textbook]
3. Complete the drawing in your notebook by attaching numbers to
their name and then answer the questions.
Well (Pozo), blacksmith shops (Herrerias), patio de armas, kitchen, entrance, oven
a) In what area did the nobility live? What about the serves?
b) How is the furniture, there are many luxuries?
c) Was there a castle in the town of Marbella?
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5. Departamento de Geografía e Historia
ACTIVITIES: THE LIFE IN THE MANOR.
1. Define:
a) Servant:
b) Villain:
c) Subsistence:
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d) Reserve Manor (Reserva Señorial):
e) Gentle manor (Mansos):
f) Fallow (Barbecho):
2. Look at the picture of the manor and answer the questions.
a) In how many parts was the manor divided?
b) Where did the farmers live?
c) Do you think that farmers would have an easy life of comfort?
3. Observe the following drawing and explain how to work the biennial
rotation.

6. Departamento de Geografía e Historia
ACTIVITIES ON THE CLERGY: THE CRUSADES (LAS CRUZADAS).
1. Why was the Church so important in the Middle Age?
2. Define:
a) Cardinal (Cardenal):
b) Tithe (Diezmo):
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c) Crusade:
d) The Holy Land:
3. Complete, in your notebook, the diagram below for the organization
of the medieval church.
4. What is the difference between regular clergy and secular clergy?
5. Look at the map below and answer.
a) How many crusades were and at what year were each one?
b) Where was each one of the crusades?
c) Who participated in the crusades?

7. Departamento de Geografía e Historia
ACTIVITIES: MEDIEVAL MONASTERY.
1. Look at the picture of the medieval monastery and answer:
a) Describe the name and function of each of the parts of the
monastery.
Dependencias Función para la comunidad
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b) Which of these elements was the centre of monastic life?
c) Why were monasteries established in the field? Who were the lands
around? Who worked in them?
d) What were the most important religious orders in the Middle Age?
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8. Departamento de Geografía e Historia
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ACTIVITIES: ROMANIC ART.
1. Define and point the definitions form A to F in the drawing below:
a) Transept:
f) Dome Canyon (Bóveda de cañon):
b) Dome (Cimborrio):
g) Capitel:
c) Apse (Ábside):
h) Archivolt (Arquivolta):
d) Ambulatory (Girola):
i) Pantocrator:
e) Canyon arch (Arco de Cañón):
j) Hieratic:
2. Answer the questions about the drawing:
a) What material is built?
b) Why the windows are few and small?
c) What shape are the bows?
d) What was the main purpose of Romanic Art?
3. What is the main idea of this text?
“At one time he had worked in a Cathedral in Exeter. At first it was as usual, and felt
upset when the master builder warned him that his work did not conform to the
required (…) level. But then he realized it was not enough that the walls of a cathedral
were well built. They had to be perfect because a cathedral was for God and also
because in such a large building the slightest inclination of the walls could weaken the
structure fatally.
Ken Follet. “The Pillars of the Earth”.

9. Departamento de Geografía e Historia
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REVIEW ACTIVITIES.
1. Attach the concepts with their definitions.
Investiture Social group with identical rights and common way of life
Fallow Group of People around the Monarch
Estamento Delivery of a Manor to a nobility or clergy vassal
Court Part of land not cultivated in order to regenerate
2. Are True or False these statements about a Manor?
T or F?
a) The Manor was the land that a noble received in return for his
loyalty to the King
b) In each manor had several castles and villages
c) In the forests of Manor formers could hunt and collect firewood
freely
d) Mill use was free for residents of the manor
e) To cross the land of a Manor you had to pay a tax
f) The part of a manor that feudal lord farmed was called gentle Manor
g) The plots in which farmers worked were called reserve Manor
h) The feudal lord dispensed justice in his land
3. Identify whom each description relates.
Monk (Monje) – Knight (Caballero) – Apprentice - Merchant
He is preparing his
weapons for a
tournament in order
to train in the arts
of weapons for
when he need to
raise an army in the
service of King.
At the end of the
day, He should
collect all workshop
materials where he
is trained on a
trade. That is the
place where he live
although does not
receive a salary for
it.
With the sound of
“Matins”, he stands
on his cell and
heads common
payers with which
began the day with
other people who,
like him, devote the
day to prayer and
work.
He is writing a
letter to his
colleague to
offer a cargo
of wool in
exchange for
amber and furs
North.