Chapter 10 Lesson 1 & 2: Feudalism & Peasants, Trade and Cities

A heavy wheeled plough with an iron plowshare drawn by six or eight oxen, easily turned over heavy clay soil.

•    Serfs

• Manor

• Medieval technology

• carruca

An agricultural estate that a lord ran and peasants worked.  

•    Serfs

• Manor

• Medieval technology

• carruca

The middle class, including merchants, industrialists and professional people

• White collar workers

•    Commercialist

•   patricians

•   bourgeoisie

Recognize factors that led to population growth in the high Middle Ages

• With the coming of the Vikings new trading methods originated.

•   Manors were worked by landlords and peasants grew richer

•   a more peaceful Europe, increased food production, new technology, and improved crop rotation

•    Telescope and astrolabes were very common.

Under feudalism, a man who served a lord in a military capacity.

•   knight

• vassal

•    fief

•   feudal contract

Under feudalism, the unwritten rules that determined the relationship between a lord and his vassal.  

•   knight

• vassal

•    fief

•   feudal contract

    In the feudal socity, loyalty to one’s knight was the chief virtue.

• True

• False

Chivalry was a code of politics that knights were supposed to uphold.

• True

• False

Recognize one reason for the decline of feudalism.

• Many Asian moved into Europe

• New classes of serfs and salves originated. They revolted

• Never before people were willing to trade with far off regions

•  In England, several political changes in the 12th and 13th centuries helped to weaken feudalism

Under the feudal contract, the vassal had responsibilities to the lord. He supported the lord and granted him land and protected the lord.  

• True

• False