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What were the sources of mechanical power after 1000?
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What were the new agricultural techniques developed in this period?
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What factors led to the doubling of the population in Europe? What were the positive and negative results of the population expansion?
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How did social, political, and economic conditions change for peasants in the High Middle Ages? Would you argue that their lives improved or declined?
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What kinds of opportunities did medieval towns offer to peasants, women, and Jews? How did trade play a part in these opportunities?
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What were charters and communes? How did guilds function in town life?
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What were the major trade centers in medieval Europe? What kinds of goods were traded? What was the purpose of the Hanseatic League?
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How were medieval castles designed? How did their design meet the requirements of both defense and daily life?
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What were the ideals of chivalry? How did knights demonstrate these values during jousts?
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What were Chansons de geste? What do they tell us about chivalric values?
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Describe courtly love. What does the troubadour poetry tell us about relations between men and women?
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Were medieval women oppressed? If so, by whom?
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What sorts of agency could specific groups of medieval women exercise? In other words, how could women get and use power?
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