Notes 4/14/10 west civ proj

• Church is focusing of the last judgment (year 1000 end of the world)
• most people illiterate and employed as farmers
• aristacrat owns land and he has serfs to work on it
• pirates descended on the coast of england
• people sold there children into slavery
• much inequality and could move up in society
• 90% were serf who worked for eristocracy, clergy, and king
• every live had an exact price which depended on status
• cow worth 5 shilling and pesent worth 200 and nobles worth 1,200 shillings
• three fixed order, 5% monks/preast and 5% nobles and knights, and those who worked on the bottom
• gentilmen was something in you genes
• serf chouldn't be married without lords permission/ they can be owned,sold, and punished
• runaway pesents were put in stocks