Unit 1: Vocabulary (Real)

Question 1

Hierarchy

Answer 1

A social system in which status is ranked, and power is concentrated in the higher ranks

Question 2

Allegiance

Answer 2

Loyalty or commitment of a subordinate to an individual or group

Question 3

Manors

Answer 3

A piece of land sometimes called a fief that houses many people peasants the rich

Question 4

Monastery

Answer 4

Building and lands in which monks lived and carried out the religious duties

Question 5

Journeyman

Answer 5

A person who has learned a trade and joined the trade

Question 6

Sumptuary Laws

Answer 6

Laws that controlled consumption or how people spent their money

Question 7

Tithe

Answer 7

A portion of crops or percentage of earnings paid to the the church

Question 8

Freeman

Answer 8

Peasants who rented land or worked for pay ( we’re able to come and go)

Question 9

Serfs

Answer 9

Peasants who worked the land for the lord and we’re not allowed to leave without the lords permission

Question 10

Feudalism

Answer 10

The system of political organization during the Middle Ages in which the lord owned the land and all others served him