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What was an effect of the expansion of the middle class?
People had an increased amount of time for leisure people had a an increaseed amount of time for leisure<------NovaNet Answer
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Was a victory for the middle class.?
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What does middle class mean?
Back in the day like 1700's there were three classes of socierty, gentry being the highest middle class in the middle (obviously) and indentured servants. Their were also …African American slaves but they didn't count to their owners. To answer your question that was first mine middle class people consisted of farmers (working on their own land), craft workers, blacksmith's and some tradespeople. I hope this answers your question if it dosen't well then I'm sorry go ask someone else. (MORE)
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What was the middle class like in the Middle Ages?
1st Answer: Middle class is a modern idea and the term really started after WW2 when the men came home from the war and had the GI bill to go to school, open bus…inesses, invent things, and build the factories. In 410 AD people were rich or poor. Nothing in the middle. 2nd Answer: One of the most important movements of the Middle Ages was the Rise of Mercantilism, which is also called the Rise of the Middle Class. Aside from clergy, there were three classes in the Middle Ages, the poor serfs, the rich nobles, and a nameless group of people who were neither poor nor noble. They didn't have the term "middle class," but they also did not have the terms "Early Middle Ages," or "Byzantine Empire." The fact that they did not have the terms does not mean these things did not exist. The nobility of the whole Middle Ages, from the start to the end, bought the best things they could buy. They did not want to make their own clothing, they wanted the best clothing makers to make their clothing from the best cloth. And the same is true of food, furniture, horses, falcons, jewelry, entertainment, advice, and so on. These things were not purchased from serfs, but from specialists in manufacture or trade. These specialists were more highly regarded, and were paid more than serfs, and were of a different group. In the Middle Ages, the people we might call middle class were often identified by where they lived, rather than according to a separation of nobility and serf. They nearly all lived in towns or cities, and so they were called bourgeoisie, or town folk. Serfs were mostly agricultural and lived on farms. The nobility depended on farms to provide their knights with horses and their families with income. So there was a real separation between the town folk and either of these groups. The poorer of the middle class were freemen who provided goods and services. These were different from the rural yeomen, because they were not farmers. They included anyone who owned a business or who hoped to own one. Butchers, bakers, street vendors, chandlers, shoe makers, carpenters, masons, weavers, potters, people appointed to be guards or gate keepers, and so on, were in this group. The young ones who were industrious and saved their money were eventually able to marry well with people of similar skills, hopes, and interests. Husbands and wives often worked together, and raised families of children who started young into the same businesses. Wealthier people were those who required more education or who bought and sold more expensive items. These people included lawyers, physicians, accountants, stewards, various people in higher appointed offices of governments. They also include dealers in silk and spices, jewelers, and money lenders. In many cases, such people rivalled the nobility for wealth, and this caused a certain amount of friction, especially in the cases of money lenders, who the nobility could be in debt to, and could resent. Many of the people of the middle class needed to be educated well beyond the needs of the common serf. And this was true for both men and women. Since the business of a merchant required keeping inventory, maintaining notes on customers, keeping track of accounts and prices, a merchant very often needed to be literate and able to do simple arithmetic. Since men often travelled, got sick, or died, women had to be able to take over the businesses. And so women in this group were educated as girls, just as the boys were. The spread of Arabic numerals, which greatly simplified mathematics, created a demand for education in the skills associated with them among young and old alike, and so new schools arose to fill the need. These schools were called Abacus Schools in Italy, but similar schools existed elsewhere. They taught reading and writing in the vernacular along with arithmetic and other skills for business. They appear to have been coeducational. The people who were skilled craftsmen and merchants began to from guilds very early on. In fact some of the guilds of the Middle Ages appear to have been founded before the fall of the Roman Empire, and the stone cutters' and glass makers' guilds are very likely to have been from that period. Guild membership spread to crafts and trades that were centered in cities and towns. The groups that were not involved included laborers, even those who were skilled, who worked on the manors, such as cheese makers or black smiths. But minstrels, cobblers, candle makers, and many other groups had guilds. The guilds protected members form competition and regulated prices. But they also protected the customers by maintaining standards on quality. The fact that men could die or be incapacitated young made the guilds consider the issue of women as members. Many guild allowed women to be members, and even masters. In this way, if a man died, his wife could support the family by carrying on the family business. Some guilds required the widow to hire a journeyman to oversee quality of the business. Later on, guilds put together trust funds to maintain widows and orphans of members, and possibly because of this, guilds became more and more closed to women as the Middle Ages drew to an end. In many towns, guilds combined into groups that actually controlled the governments. Republican cities called communes arose, beginning as early, perhaps, as the 6th or 7th centuries. These communes were not feudal, even though they may have been in feudal countries. Sometimes they had nominal feudal lords, but often they did not. They entered into treaties with each other, usually without any regard for national borders, and became very powerful. In time, some of the guild leagues rivaled nations for power, and the Hanseatic League actually entered into treaties with various countries, had its own military forces and conducted its own wars. The middle class arose from both the nobility and the serfs, and bridged the gap between the two groups in their family ties. Many members of the middle class were from families that were freed or ran off the manors and established themselves in town. The laws of many places said that a serf who ran away was considered free after a year passed. The temptation for serfs to become free was largely offset by the fact that the middle class did not get the same levels of protection and security that landed serfs did. There was no guarantee of a job or place to live for the middle class. Nevertheless, some serfs did run off start new lives in towns. Another source of middle class people was the nobility. Today there are a number of things people do not understand about the relationship between feudal lords, nobility, and commoners. If you were a member of the immediate family of a feudal lord, you were of the nobility. A knight was a member of the nobility, but was not necessarily a feudal lord, and so his children might not be members of the nobility. In England, anyone who owned a manor was a member of the nobility. But children were not members of the nobility if their parents did not have manorial estates. So if a son of a lord moved to town and set up shop as a cloth merchant, as the father of Thomas Becket did, his children were not members of the nobility. Also, the highest lords were peers, but anyone who was neither in the immediate family of a king nor a peer was a commoner. So most knights were both members of the nobility and commoners. (MORE)
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What class was a sailor in the middle ages?
Peasant, but there were very few sailors since very few ships traded. It isn't until the late 1400's that trade and exploring began.
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What did they call the middle class in the Middle Ages?
In the Middle Ages, the concept of classes was very strong, but the term did not yet exist. There was a middle class, but it did not have a name, beyond being called commone…rs. The problem with this is that the middle class, as we know it, is the class between the labor class and the wealthy. In the middle ages, commoners included everyone who was not a member of the royalty or peerage. And so a commoner could also be a member of the nobility, but just not a peer, just as today, the grandchildren of Queen Elizabeth II are technically commoners. But a serf, who was definitely not middle class, was also a commoner. So the middle class consisted of commoners, but only those commoners who were not nobility and not simple laborers. There were always members of this group, from the very start of the Middle Ages; they just did not have a specific name associated with them that I can find anywhere until fairly recently. Nevertheless, the rise of the middle class was one of the most important trends of the Middle Ages, and one of the most important causes of the Renaissance. There are links below to articles on commoners. (MORE)
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Why did the middle class rise in the Middle Ages?
The middle class was a group of people who were not of noble families, were not land owners, but also were not clergy and not farmers or laborers. Among them were shop owners,… artisans, craftsmen, carpenters, jewelers, physicians, and so on. There was always a middle class in the Middle Ages, but in the beginning it was small and rather insignificant. Very early on, it was a chore for most people just to stay alive with armies roving Europe making a mess of things, and general anarchy. So a middle class really did not have much opportunity to rise. But in about the year 700 or 750, things began to change. The situation developed out of anarchy and into stability.New agricultural inventions made it possible for fewer people to produce more crops.This made it possible for towns to grow.Schools began opening, even as early as the 6th century.Both governments and the Church wanted to have roads safe for pilgrims and merchants.Medieval republics began to form, in which government was aimed at enriching the merchants and craftsmen rather than the nobility.The crusades broadened people's understanding of the world and their desires for imported goods.Monastic groups formed that protected and sheltered pilgrims.More inventions made it possible to manufacture new goods.Universities opened.Guilds arose, setting both prices and standards, leading to higher consumer confidence and greater wealth for merchants and craftsmen.The Knights Templar set up to do international money transactions.More republican governments formed. Medieval communes began to be important, both within monarchies and independently.The silk road opened.Business schools called abacus schools opened, leading to more widespread literacy and learning.The Knights Templar were suppressed leaving an economic power vacuum which was filled by merchant families. These developed into international banking families.Medieval republics and communes formed international trading leagues, such as the Hanseatic League, which made their own treaties, had their own military, and operated to increase trade and profit.Because of the increased wealth of commoners, parliaments began to represent them.The printing press made it possible for relatively poor people to have access to books. Just as important, it became possible for relatively poor people to publish their own ideas and opinions. (MORE)
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What are the three classes of the middle ages?
One three part class system divides people into these: the nobility, who protect all the clergy, who save the souls of all the peasants, who feed all (the bulk of the popu…lation) There are a lot of problems with this, however, and it is only a very simplistic way of looking at things. Part of the problem is that who were included in the nobility was not clearly defined. Members of the royal families were not necessarily also members of the nobility (today, the children of the Prince of Wales are technically commoners). So the members of the royal family do not fit into the three way class division. They were above the nobility, but they did not fit into either of the other two classes. (see the link on commoners) Also, there was a very important division of the nobility into those who were peers, and those who were commoners. People who held inherited titles of nobility were peers, in the Middle Ages, but knights were not peers, and so were technically commoners, even though they were nobles. Also, not all members of the nobility had titles, as there was technically no requirement that a person actually be a knight to have an estate, and the numbers of untitled landed gentry increased as the Middle Ages went on. The nobility included landed gentry, and the children of landed gentry. But a son of a member of the landed gentry could become a merchant and have no estate. By doing this, he might have become very much richer than his father, but it also meant his children were not of the nobility, instead being simply commoners related to nobility. The commoners always included a number of people in the middle class, who were above peasants, but not members of the nobility. One example of such a person who grew up in such status was Thomas Becket, the son of a cloth merchant, whose father was a knight. (see the link on Thomas Becket) The middle class also included skilled craftsmen of all sorts, from bakers to stone cutters. The guilds these people formed existed through the Middle Ages, and include some that seem to have gone back to the Roman Empire, before the Middle Ages began. The presence of a middle class through the Middle Ages is proven by this. We can also see the middle class in operation in the establishment of the Republic of Venice, in the 8th century. (see the links on guilds and the Republic of Venice) Another part of the problem of viewing medieval society as having three simple classes is that even during the Middle Ages no one was quite sure who the clergy were. According to one view, the clergy were technically those people who were ordained, and included deacons, priests, and bishops; but this left no room for monks or nuns. Another view was that there were secular clergy, who were ordained and served in secular situations, and regular clergy, who had taken monastic orders; but this did not include the nuns and also might not have included some friars. At the other end of the spectrum was a legal point of view, which needed a precise definition under the law, and included all clerics, regardless of ordination or vows; this extended benefits of clergy to all studying to be ordained, then to all students regardless of intentions, and finally to all who could read. (see the link below to an article on benefit of clergy) There was, among peasants, the important distinction between those who were serfs, bound to the soil, and those who were free. Freemen who were peasants were above serfs, where serfdom existed, and serfs were above slaves, were slavery existed. But freemen could also be commoners in the towns and cities, and even during the Early Middle Ages, they owned their own businesses as merchants and craftsmen. Also, during the Middle Ages, in most places slavery disappeared, and serfdom became more and more obsolete. (see the link on serfdom) (MORE)
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Importance of the rise of the middle class?
In general terms, the importance of the rise of the middle class in Europe may be ranked as one of the decisive developments in the entirety of European -- and even World …-- History. Initially small, lacking influence, and even widely held in contempt, it gradually rose to become a new 'power-player' in social and political affairs. It eventually contributed to the toppling of monarchy in Europe, the rise of new economic theories and practices, and even had a strong hand in the development of constitutional government and other generally 'democratic' influences across the globe. (MORE)
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What is the answer to 20c plus 5 equals 5c plus 65?
20c + 5 = 5c + 65 Divide through by 5: 4c + 1 = c + 13 Subtract c from both sides: 3c + 1 = 13 Subtract 1 from both sides: 3c = 12 Divide both sides by 3: c = 4 20c + 5 = 5c …+65 20c - 5c= 65 - 5.
15c = 60.
15c/15 = 60/15.
c = 4 (alternative method). (MORE)