🏰 Feudal Roles
This person ruled the entire kingdom and was at the top of the feudal system.
Who was the King? (The Monarch)
This is what nobles promise the king in exchange for land and power.
What is loyalty and/or military support?
This was the kind of life most serfs lived.
This individual relied on the feudal system to run the kingdom.
Who is the King (monarch)?
The major empire that collapsed and created a power vacuum in Western Europe.
What is the Western Roman Empire?
This was the largest group in the Middle Ages, tied to the land they worked.
Who are the serfs (peasants)?
These individuals raised local armies for the king when needed.
Who are the Nobility?
This was a serf who had more freedom, such as to run a buisness.
Who is a blacksmith, cobbler, cooper, or baker?
This relationship between the king and nobles was based on this.
What is loyalty and/or land exchange?
This religious institution survived the fall of the Roman Empire and gained power.
What is the Christian Church (the Papacy)?
This group received land in exchange for military service and often ran manors.
Who are Knights?
This is what knights and vassals offered in exchange for land.
What is military service?
The relationship serfs had with the land they worked.
What is they are tied to it?
The way a kingdom was divided among the upper classes.
What is it was given to nobles, then knights or vassals?
These groups helped fill the power vacuum by creating new kingdoms after Rome fell.
Who were Germanic tribes?
These individuals managed smaller portions of the kingdom and pledged loyalty to the king.
Who are The Nobility (Lords)?
This is what serfs gave in exchange for protection and a place to live.
What is their labor and/or the crops they harvested?
This was often the biggest challenge for poor serfs.
What is hunger and/or survival?
This is role the feudal system played in medieval government.
What is it provided structure and protection?
This influential thinker taught about separating earthly and heavenly power.
Who was Augustine of Hippo?
They only had enough land to support their families but still owed military service.
Who are Vassals?
This was the main benefit of feudalism when it worked well.
What is peace and prosperity for all classes?
This was how knights were different from vassals, as it relates to control of land.
This was why feudalism developed in the first place.
What is to protect subjects during unstable times
The papacy increased its power after the fall of Rome by doing this.
What is standardizing church practices and/or converting non-Christians?