Feudal Societies Flashcards
Feudalism
Loyalty and protection
strong protected weak- returned with farm labor, military service, loyalty
Life on estate- owned by nobleman and family called “manor”
village of peasants
improved tools and farming methods
Knighthood- code of chivalry
Superiors
small % of people, fighting and ruling aristocracy
largest landowners
Roman Catholic Church- education
cities grew
increase in trade and travel
Guilds
craft workers protect quality of work and regulate buying/selling of products
City Government
centered on strong town councils
end of Feudal manorial system
Black Death
Feudal Japan
Kyoto- capital
rich and powerful landowners, nobles, grew powerful
Daimyos
Japan
nobles were lords of great lands highest social class and people of lower social classes worked for them
Samurai
warriors serving for Daimyos
Samurai Code
every man was a soldier and a gentleman
economic difference between imperial feudal Japan
money that continued to flow into country from trade with China, Korea, and other Asian countries, made its way into the pockets of the Daimyos rather than the emperor’s coffers
Kamikaze
“divine wind”- Japan deflected Mongol invasion