Feudalism in the MIddle Ages

What is the name for the system of promises between lords and serfs that governed Europe in the Middle Ages?

• Christianity
• Feudalism
• Shinto
• Chivalry

Which answer choice shows the order of Feudal Society from highest to lowest?

• peasants, knights, nobles, king
• king, nobles, knights, peasants
• knights, king, peasants, serfs
• merchants, knights, commoners, serfs

Which of the following best describes the function of the feudal system in Europe during the Middle Ages?

• Knights were as highly honored by society as nobles

• Nobles owned servants or slaves who worked their land without benefit

• Every member of society had the primary responsibility of protecting their king

• Land-owning nobles provided land in exchange for specific services from tenants (serfs/peasants).

A __________ is a person of high rank by birth or title.

• noble
• serf
• priest
• knight

In medieval Europe, an armored warrior who fought on horseback to protect a nobles land was called?

• king

• lord

• peasant

• knight

The Manor System was based upon

• performing services in exchange for protection

• trade among villagers

• farming

• herding and weaving

The event that began the Middle Ages was the________

• fall of Rome

• death of Julius Caesar

• birth of Christ

• invention of the printing press

group that made up the largest part of the population in feudal society and were legally tied to the manor

• knights

• fief

• peasants/serfs

• tithe

• Magna Carta

gave the people basic rights such as taxation only with representation, right to trial, limited the power of the monarchy

• tithe

• Magna Carta

• Inquisition

• Urban II

• knights

land granted by a lord to a noble

• serf

• pilgrimage

• Urban II

• excommunication

• fief