The Feudal System

The social, economic and political system of the Middle Ages was called a...

• Monarchy System

• Feudal System

• Noble System

• Religious System

Hired freelance (entrepreneur) soldiers

• Serfs

• Nobles

• Vassals

• Knights

Soldiers hired to protect and paid for with fiefs

• Vassals

• Serfs

• Knights

• Nobles

Fiefs are...

• gifts presented to the king

• Money paid to Nobles

• Land given to vassals

• Land given to knights

Watched over everything...

• King

• Nobles

• Peasants

• Church

What is the difference between peasants and serfs?

Answer explanation

Peasants are not chained to the land and serfs are attached to the land, like slaves.

What is this image depicting?

• Social Mobility
• Feudalism
• Mandate of Heaven
• Caste System

A system of promises is called..

(a)  

Vassals could become nobles.

• True

• False

These people could swear loyalty to more than one noble.

• Peasants

• Knights

• Vassals

• Serfs