Q1. Write any three causes that led to feudalism I Europe?
Q2. Mention any three causes responsible for the rise of middle class.
Q3. Discuss the achievements of nation – states.
Q4. Why do you think the people of new towns were considered of fourth
order?
Q5. Write a short note on serfs.
Q6.Which values enhanced the status of nobility?
Answers
Answer:
1. There were many causes for the breakdown of the feudal system. You will explore three of these causes: political changes in England, a terrible disease, and a long series of wars. ... In the 1300s, a terrible disease called the bubonic plague, or Black Death, swept across Asia and reached Europe in the late 1340s.
2.Middle class in India emerged because British rulers in India had no adequate economic and political systems and wanted to transplant their own systems and principles of government as well economic organisation with such modifications which suited mainly to their own interests and partially to local conditions .
3.Freedom of serfs due to the fall of feudalism.
Establishment of constitutional Government.
Unification small empires into Nation-States.
Common language and culture.
National Planning on Agriculture, Industry and Trade.
4.The people of new towns were considered of fourth order because of the following: ... Craftsmen found it easier to settle in the towns as goods could be produced and traded for food. The rich traders and merchants developed better than the nobility.
5.A serf is a worker bound to a certain piece of land (called a fief) who is loyal to a vassal (lord or noble) above him, usually called a lord. Serfs are tied to the land they work, perform the same menial tasks each day, and receive little or no benefit for their labors.
6.The values which enhanced the status of nobility were: Their wealth. Their social status. Their political image.
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