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Europe in 1500: an insignificant backwater1/23/2014 5:42:00 pm. Social structure: the old regimes" pyramid: three estates determines by legal inequalities, 1. The clergy (those who pray: their job was to pray for people, ruled by church, not state, 2. The nobility (those who fight: inherited their title, born into the nobility, didn"t have to work with their hands, fight for the king, don"t get hands dirty, live nobly, 3. Everybody else (those with few or no privileges) Social structure: town life: a world of privileges too- but a little more flexibility (and danger, walled towns, merchants and guilds, guild: labor organization designed to do a specific task, masters, artisans, and journeymen. Clicker question: what was the most important organization holding europeans together in 1500, the catholic church. Terms: diet of worms, peace of augsburg, 95 theses john calvin, peasants" revolt, iconoclasm, schmalkaldic league, charles v, frederick the wise.
