Social Structure
History
Knights
Miscellaneous
Comparing to Japan
100
peasants
What is the lowest group in the social structure?
100
term to describe the time of chaos in the early middle ages
What is the dark ages?
100
what knights promised to their lord
What is loyalty?
100
the shape of a feudal social structure
What is a pyramid?
100
knight in Europe is to __________ in Japan
What is a samurai?
200
The largest group in society
What is peasants?
200
economic and political system that promised safety in return for loyalty
What is feudalism?
200
lived in a lord's castle
What is a knight?
200
what vassals were given in return for loyalty and service
What is land and protection?
200
social group of knights and samurai
What is nobles?
300
Knights
What is the 3rd group in the social pyramid - beneath lords and ladies?
300
name for groups attacking and vandalizing former Roman Empire
What is barbarians?
300
protect the lord and lord's manor
What is a knight's job?
300
nobles, lords, ladies, knights, monarchs
What are aristocrats?
300
flexibility
What is how was the armor of a samurai better than that of a knight?
400
Nobility
What is the group of aristocrats that included lords, ladies, kings, queens and knights?
400
King of France credited with beginning feudalism in Europe
Who is Charlemagne?
400
the term for someone who pledges loyalty and protection in return for land or a home
What is a vassal?
400
a peasant who cannot leave the manor
What is a serf?
400
usually inherited from father or other male relative
What is how someone was allowed to become a knight or samurai?
500
God gave right to rule
What is the king or monarch?
500
a political result of the fall of the Roman Empire
What is the lack of a strong central government?
500
younger sons
What is the family position of most knights or why they needed to be a vassal for other nobles?
500
word for the land granted by one lord to another lord in return for loyalty and service
What is fief?
500
Bushido is to samurai as ___________ is to knight
What is code of chivalry?
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