Feudalism

Your mother and father are both serfs.  If you save your money and work hard, you will most likely become:

• A lord
• A knight
• A vassal
• A serf

Land was to the feudal system as ________ is to modern society.

• Money
• Real estate
• Education
• Politics

What was the main job of a knight?

• Defending his lord's or king's territory
• Enforcing the law on his lord's manor
• Going on extreme adventures
• Competing in tournaments against other knights

Monarchy

• a large area of land that was ruled over by a lord in medieval times: a feudal estate

• a country that is ruled by a monarch (such as a king or queen)

• of, or relating to, or belonging to the highest social class: of, or relating to, or belonging to the nobility

• a member of a servile feudal class bound to the land and subject to the will of its owner

What is a fief?

• A warrior who fights on a horseback

• Land granted to a vassal for military service

• A lower noble

• Land the king grants to peasants

What is a serf?

• A noble who cannot leave the farm they were born on

• A peasant who cannot own property and must work a nobles land

• A knight who serves a lord for life

• A peasant who pays the noble to farm the noble's land

Why was feudalism popular in the Middle Ages?

• countries did not have armies to protect them and needed the loyalty of the people to defend it

• the Roman Empire forced them to use it

• the kings were very generous and liked to give away land

• it was the only way to fight the spread of Christianity and Islam

Armed warriors who helped protect the king and lords were

• serfs

• knights

• soldiers

• samurai

Why were serfs not allowed to leave a lord's manor?

• they were the property of the lord

• they owed a debt

• they were captured in war

• they could leave if they wanted to

True or False: Feudalism was the government system of Middle Ages Europe. It worked like a contract in

which the most powerful person told others below him what to do

• True

• False