Middle Ages Vocab

What was the name of the land that was given to Vassal from his lord?

• leaf

• fief

• farm

• serf

Who is the highest ranking official in a feudal society?

• noble

• vassal

• king

• serf

A government based on land ownership and the relationship between a lord and his vassal

• Democracy

• Dictatorship

• Feudalism

• Triumvirate

A landowner under the protection of a feudal lord to whom he has vowed homage and fealty

• Vassal

• Journeyman

• Clergy

• Master

The mounted soldiers of the medieval world, often a vassal of another lord

• Noble

• Vassal

• Serf

• Knight

A peasant who could not leave the lord’s land on which he or she was born and worked

• Lord

• Vassal

• Serf

• Knight

 The code that knights tried to live by

• Tithe

• Vassal

• Chivalry

• Castle

A journey to a holy site

• Pilgrimage

• Excursion

• Expedition

• Mission

Document that limits the power the king

• Magna Carta

• Feudalism

• Middle Ages

• Excommunicate

A young nobleman acting as an attendant to a knight before becoming a knight himself.

• Page

• Tithe

• Journeyman

• Squire