Feudal Europe

Question 1

Feudalism

Answer 1

Levels
1. Emperor and his family
2. Vassals ( Lord to Emperor)
3. Vassals ( Knight to Lord )
4. Peasants
- Happened in Europe and other countries like Japan
- Happened in the Middle Ages

Question 2

Middle Ages

Answer 2

• A period in European History
• Midieval period
• 400’s to the 1400’s

Question 3

Hierarchy

Answer 3

• A system that is ranked one higher than the other
• Governed by religious people
• Angels are organized in groups (celestial hierarchy)

Question 4

Knight

Answer 4

• Respected military and social rank in middle ages
• Medieval writers used milites as a way to call knights
• Knight originated from the Old English word “cnite”
• Milites has been used sense Roman Empire
• A.D 400’s - 1400’s

Question 5

Serf

Answer 5

• Type of rural farmer in the early middle ages (600’s - 1100’s)
• Developed in western Europe in 500’s
• Slave system collapsed so owners gave them more freedom
• Serfs were able to have houses, land, and large estates
• paid landlords for their rent
• Couldn’t be priests or give testimonies in court
• Could not be bought like slaves
• many serfs rebelled before serfdom ended in 1500’s
• Serfdom continued into the 1400’s in Germany
• some became wealthy
• Serfdom in Germany and Russia started in 1300’s and ended in 1800’s

Question 6

Manorialism

Answer 6

• social and economic system
• land divided into into large estates or manors, and controlled my landlords and tenants
• Developed after Roman Empire fell in the late A.D 400’s
• Didn’t form the basis for a social system even though they had manors
• Lords manor was used for lords
• Tenants lived with other laborers in a cluster nearby the lords manor
• Tenants provided labor for protection and justice, paid rent and taxes for the lords goods, services, or money
• Manors began to break up in wester Europe in 1000’s when trade and industry started to grow