Middle Ages

Political system used during Middle Ages where land was exchanged for loyalty and service.

• Fief

• Kingdom

• Feudalism

• Monarch

A land owner in the Middle Ages who is in charge of the people on his land and the lesser lords he gave land to.

• Lord

• Squire

• Page

• Fief

A piece of land given from lord to a lesser lord.

• Vassal

• Royalty

• Kingdom

• Fief

A lesser lord who accepts land from a more powerful lord and pledges loyalty and service to that lord

• King

• Monarch

• Vassal

• Peasant

A nobleman who was trained as a warrior and lived their live according to a code of chivalry

• Samurai

• Navy

• Vassal

• Knight

Lower class during the Middle Ages who worked on a manor in exchange for protection.

• Knight

• Noble

• Lord

• Peasant

A peasant who was bound to the land

• Serf

• Apprentice

• Page

• Squire

The village where nobles and peasants lived, also where all the economic activity took place during the Middle Ages.

• Province

• County

• Manor

• Vassal

Because it was too dangerous to travel to trade, each manor had to be _________________________, or able to provide everything they needed.

• nobility

• self-sufficient

• vegan

• monastic

Who conquered most of Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire?

• William the Conqueror
• the Pope
• Charlemagne
• King Henry VIII