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What caused the development of feudalism and manorialism in medieval Europe?

• The fall of the Roman empire

• Foreign invasions led by Vikings, Muslims, and Germanic groups

• The breakdown of a central political authority and economic decline in Western Europe

• All of the above

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.

What does this picture represent?

• A city

• A river

• A manor

• A forest

In feudal Europe, a person who controlled land and had personal armies of vassals:

• Lord

• Knight

• Serf

• Priest

Soldiers who serve in a lord's army in exchange for land:

• Priests

• Knights

• Serfs

• Vikings

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

• King

• Lord

• Knight

• Serf

These were the people at the bottom of the feudal social pyramid:

• The Pope

• Knights

• Serfs

• Lords