HIS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Compound Bow, Standing Army

• School: University of Hartford
• Department: History - A&S
• Course: HIS 100
• Professor: Professor Rosenthal

Document Summary

Before this, europe was not stable as a state, experiencing things such as peasant/dynastic/class wars. Feudal system came into use: king gives land to count--> baron--> earl--> duke--> vassals o. Issue: king cannot force action upon subordinates due to the fact that the vassals under him are his army. Use of the pike- 13 foot long spear taken from greece. Use of compound bow- first used in battle of crecy in 1347 that would knock knights off their horses (turning point in military technology) Knights replaces by foot soldiers due to development of new military technologies o o. The issue with mercenaries being salaried is the king needed money to pay the soldiers. The taxes he received from the feudal system were in goods rather than currency so this was a problem. Nobles taxed merchants in order to pay their taxes to the king.