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It was not unusual for… · Cooks to torture animals before slaughtering them in order to make the meat tenderer. · For people to cover their houses with graffiti.
 * Traditions, Customs, and Facts of the Every-day Lives of Renaissance Citizens **

Upper class (nobility, royalty, etc) · They had large amounts of fine furniture, jewelry, and large, beautiful homes. · Hunting was the pastime preferred when war was not being waged · Only cared for feasting and gambling when there was no war or game to be hunted. · It is said that some royalty kept lions or other ferocious beasts in their palaces as a symbol of their wealth and power. · Noblemen enjoyed watching wild animals fight each other and make bets. · It was the custom for invited guests to appear armed at the noblemen’s feasts, which were always accompanied with a religious ceremony. · For the amusement of the upper classmen, they sometimes had two men blindfolded put in an arena with sticks and they had to beat a duck also loose in the arena. · There were often private or large fights after these fights when the men became drunk, but the guests still remained merry and happy during and after the small “fist-fights.” · Royalty had hundreds of acres of land that they sometimes left natural or built their own small towns on. Their palaces were huge and often had a wall built around the palace. · Women wore extremely tall head-dresses that represented their family’s wealth. Middle class · Not having money or strength to claim a great amount of liberty, they had no choice but to be satisfied with a few privileges given to them by the nobles. · They had their own cities that were controlled by the upper class. · Most of the middle class was made up of farmers, toolmakers, and small-business shop keepers. · The middle class was mostly uneducated.

Lower class · The lower class was really just people that made hardly any money (usually farmers that just do labor). · Beggars, orphans, and independent (homeless) people can be considered lower class · No one in this class had an education.

· The people in the Renaissance period loved sightseeing, tennis, the game of “chance (at one time, these games were forbidden),” watching jugglers and tumblers, and dancing. · Girls were not allowed to play sports or games that boys played and were expected to behave and be obedient.

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