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

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• Fief

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

• Vassal

• Royalty

• Kingdom

• Fief

Upper class land owners

• Vassal

• Noble

• Serf

• Plebeian

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

• King

• Monarch

• Vassal

• Peasant

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

Code of conduct which a knight swore to uphold

• Ethics

• Semper Fi

• Chivalry

• Tithe

Event where knights would ride towards each other with blunted lances (long poles) in attempt to knock each other off of their horse

• Joust

• Chivalry

• Squire

• Page

What made Europeans feel united together after the Roman Empire didn't anymore?

• Kings
• Christianity
• Alexander the Great
• Serfs