The churches have become the prime area for cultural and learning.
They believed that 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."
Families sold their own children.
The people lived by the idea that God gave them what they had and if you were an aristocrat, God loved you more.
Breakdown of Hierarchy
5%- Clergy
5%- Aristocrats
90%- Serfs, the workers of the people higher than them
There was a fine that had to be paid if a person was killed. The cost of killing someone with power was six times as much as the price for a commoner.
A man escaped from his farm and found his way to Lindusfarne.
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