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7 Hıstory

Listening and Speaking

A. Match the pictures with the words in the boxes.

peasant revolt malnutrition grain manor pasture justice lord arable farming

a. b. c.

d. e. f.

g. h. ı.

B. Use the pictures to discuss the following questions. D. Listen again and mark the sentences as
true (T) or false (F).
1. How do you think the life of peasants changed
during the century after the Black Death? 1. Countries imported more grain after
the Black Death.
2. In your opinion, what happened to how lords lived?
3. In what ways did the environment change? 2. Pirates stole grain which was shipped
into the country.

7.1 3. After the Black Death, wages for
C. Listen to a lecture about the social and peasant labour increased.
economic impacts of the Black Death. Answer the 4. Under feudalism, peasants were
questions in pairs.
bound to the lord of a manor.
1. What happened to food availability immediately 5. Feudalism ended in the Black Death
after the Black Death?
in both Eastern and Western Europe.
2. How did this affect people? 6. There was less cattle farming after the
3. What was feudalism, and why did it end after the Black Death than previously.
Black Death? 7. After the Black Death, peasants and
4. How did the environment change after the Black nobles wore similar clothes.
Death? 8. In 1381, English peasants revolted
5. How did lords and nobles respond to these because of low wages.
changes?
6. Why did the Golden Age end?

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