Feudalism and Manorialism

What was life like for the majority of the people that lived in the Middle Ages under the Feudal System?

• They hung out at the local pub

• They lived in nice castles

• The were soldiers who fought invaders

• They worked hard as peasant farmers

What building, owned by the local lord, was the center of daily life in the Feudal System?

• The manor

• The church

• The capital building

• The forum

Who did the peasants get in return for serving and working for their local lord?

• A long happy life

• The right to vote for the king

• Protection from invaders

• Lots of food and weekends off

What is feudalism?

• A political system based on a lord’s distribution of land to vassals in exchange for vassals’ loyalty and military service

• A political system where the king gives the people everything they want

• A political system where people pledge their loyalty to knights so that the knights will not attack them

• None of the above

What is manorialism?

• The political relationships between the king, the nobility, and the peasants

• A rural, self-sufficient economic system in which serfs worked the land belonging to a lord's manor

• The land given to monasteries by different governments as a demonstration of loyalty to the Church

• The process of how a nobleman's son could become a knight

What is a fief?

• A disease that killed many peasants during the Middle Ages

• The siege weaponry used to storm castles

• Land given to vassals in exchange for loyalty and military service to a lord

• None of the above

What is one major effect of feudalism and manorialism?

• Democratic republics developed.

• The serfs became politically powerful.

• Lords never went to war against each other to gain new territory.

• There was no social mobility. You were born into your social position.

A farm worker who was tied to the lord's manor:

• King

• Lord

• Knight

• Serf

What was the code of conduct used by the European Knights called?

• Bushido

• Chivalry

• Feudalism

• Vassalage

In Feudalism, what did vassals receive in return for their loyalty to the king?

• Friendship

• Protection

• Land

• Crops