Middle Ages Villages
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Most people in the Middle Ages lived in  villages.  The villages were controlled by the Lord of the Manor.  Stray animals were kept in a pound until their owners paid a fine to get them out.  The roofs of some houses were made of straw or reeds.  This was called thatch.  All of the wheat in the village had to be taken to the village mill.  The land belonged to the Lord of the Manor and it was farmed by villagers.  They paid him by giving some food which they grew.  Black death was sometimes caused by rats or bats.  Some sick sailors from  the East landed in an Italian port and the Black death disease was very bad.
 

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