Lecture 4: Politics and Dynasties

Question 1

Define Feudalism

Answer 1

a relationship of mutual obligaition between members of society defined by land tenure

Question 2

What are the 3 orders of society and who are they?

Answer 2

1. Those who pray: clergy
   2: Those who fight: elite warriors
2. Those who work: everyone else

Question 3

True or false: the concepts of kingship and nobility became less defined in later middle ages

Answer 3

False

Question 4

When was the heyday of feudalism?

Answer 4

900-1300 AD

Question 5

True or False: chivalry culture was developed to restrain nobles’ behavior

Answer 5

True

Question 6

What were the elites’ roles in feudalism?

Answer 6

settling disputes, maintaining/paying for roads and structures

Question 7

How did the nature of feudal society dictate the mobilization of military forces?

Answer 7

A king or lord had to call upon the men in his service from his land-owning lords

Question 8

What brought about the evolution of the feudal system?

Answer 8

The decentralization of power and weak admin. post-roman empire