4/14/10 facts about Churches notes

• the churches have become the primes area for culture and learning
• They thought the year 1000 was going to be doomsday
• Only 5% of the population is literate
• 90% of the population is in the work of the aristocrats
• Social mobility does not exist. "Born a peasant, die a peasant"
• Children were put up for slavery and sold
• They didn't believe that there was equality
• The Clergies and the aristocrats made up 10% of the population
• The other 90% were serfs
• Three fixed classes or orders
• The third order worked
• They put their serfs in stocks