2.3 Feudalism:
Establishing Order
Establishing Order
What is the name of a social order developed in Europe by the High Middle Ages?
What is the feudal system or feudalism?
Who was expected to keep order, and provide protection for their vassals?
What is Monarchs, or kings and ueens.
What were lords and ladies members of?
What is the nobility (noble class)?
During the first stage of training, ______ spent a lot of time in the castle helping the ladies?
What is a page?
A tax the lord could demand whenever he needed money was called a?
What is a tallage?
When was Feudalism developed?
What is around 1,000 C.E.
Who did the medieval monarchs rely on to provide wealth, knights, and soldiers for their kingdoms?
What is vassals, especially nobles (lords)?
Name two reasons people got diseases.
What are their clothes weren't washed daily, people bathed once a week, candles and fire warmed cold and gloomy castles, fleas and lice infected all Medieval buildings
They polish the knights armor, sword, shield, and lance.
What is a squire?
These people rented their land to farm, and owed only their rent to their lord. They could leave the manor. Who are they?
Who are the free peasants?
Kings (monarchs), Lords / Ladies (or nobles), Knights, and Peasants (serfs) are part of what?
What is the Feudal Pyramid?
By the mid-11th Century England was rules by a Germanic tribe called?
What is or Who are the Saxons?
This buildings primary function was to serve as a home.
What is a castle?
Describe what a lord does with a sword during the knight ceremony?
What is a lord touches the knight-to-be lightly on each side of his shoulder lightly with the flat end of the blade, and knighted him.
This group of people farmed their lords fields and could not leave the lords manor. In return for their labor they received their own small plot of land to farm. Who are they?
What is a serf?
A peasant who could not leave the lord's land in which he/she was born and worked is a
What is a Serf?
Why did William (The Duke of Normandy) and his armies invade England?
William believed he had the right to the English throne that was given to his cousin Harold in 1066.
Pages and Squires are part of what group?
What are knights. (Knights in training)
Define chivalry
What is the medieval knight's code of ideal behavior, including bravery, loyalty, and respect for women?
When a woman married, she, her father, or her husband had to pay a fee called?
What is merchet?
This includes a manor house, one or more villages, and surrounding farmland.
What is a Manor or Estate?
Lords and ladies enjoyed these activities when they weren't hard at work. (List 2-3 correctly.)
What is hunting, hawking, feasting and dancing, board games, and reading. (Women also did "fine stitching").
Describe a jousting tournament.
What is a tournament in which knight fought in heavy armor on horseback with extended lances. Each knights goal was to unseat the other. Jousting was used as a sporting event, for exercise, or for serious battles between rival kingdoms.
Describe the living conditions in a peasants home.
What is a one or two room house or woven wood covered with mud or straw. A hearth fire was in the middle of the main room often with no chimney. The entire family would eat and sleep in the same room and often farm animals lived inside the house with the family.