AGRICULTURAL INNOVATIONS

HOW DID SOCIETY CHANGE?

• Three fields used for farming:
• Ex. 1. Fruits & vegetables 2. Grain 3. Life stock
• Life stock field used to renew the soil
• Fields rotated every one or two years
• Fertile soil made foods grow more easily, so people lived longer

SOCIETY (CONT.)

• Population increased from healthy foods

ENGLISH KINGS' GOALS

• To hold and add lands to their French territories
• To strengthen their power against the nobles and the Church
• Goals were achieved through the Hundred Years War

PARLIAMENT

• Legislative group
• Had two burgesses and two knights from each country
• Two groups: House of Commons (knights), House of Lords (nobles & bishops)
• Became stronger and began to check the royal power
• Legislative property for Germany and Italy

ESTATES GENERAL

• 1st Estate- Clergy
• 2nd Estate- Nobles
• 3rd Estate- Commoners
• Legislative body for England and France