Unit 1 Lesson 4.2 Feudalism Establishing Order

What is feudalism?

• A system that allowed peasants to own land
• A system that abolished social classes
• A system that allowed people to move up in social class
• A system that provided people with protection and safety by establishing a stable social order

Who owned all the land in the kingdom under the feudal system?

• The monarch
• The Church
• The peasants
• The lords

What were fiefs?

• Land grants
• Manor houses
• Peasant villages
• Knights in times of war

What did lords promise to supply the king with in times of war?

• Knights
• Peasants
• Food
• Money

What did lords rent to peasants?

• Money
• Castles
• Knights
• Land

What were serfs?

• Lords who owned large estates
• Peasants who could leave the lord's land without permission
• Peasants who were tied to the land they worked
• Knights who supplied the king with soldiers

Where did most lords and wealthier knights live?

• In castles
• On manors, or large estates
• In towns
• In the countryside

What did a manor include?

• A church, a market, and a town hall
• A castle or manor house, one or more villages, and the surrounding farmland
• A factory, a warehouse, and a shipping yard
• A school, a hospital, and a library

What did peasants have to do on manors?

• Buy everything the people on the manor needed
• Steal everything the people on the manor needed
• Trade everything the people on the manor needed
• Produce everything the people on the manor needed

What were the social classes in feudal society?

• Church officials, merchants, artisans, peasants
• Kings, queens, princes, princesses
• Nobles, commoners, slaves, serfs
• Monarch, lords, knights, peasants