The Pyramid of Power
The End of Feudalism
What Led to Feudalism?
Middle Ages Feudalism
Feudal Life
100

These people were in power during feudalism.

What is the nobles?

100

Swept through Europe, helped weaken feudalism, and killed millions of people

What is Black Death? (Plauge)

100
King Martel gave nobles willing to fight for him this.
What is land?
100
Based on barter and exchanges, rather than money
What is feudalism?
100
People who made Europe safer
What is nobles?
200
Who the people looked to for protection
What is the nobles?
200

Power shifted from nobles to this person.

What is the King?

200
Armies were needed to fight these people.
What is the Muslims?
200
The center of a kingdom.
What is the castle?
200
Ten years old
What is an apprentice?
300
Who was expected to obey thier lord? (Nobles)
What is the knights?
300
Kings charged this on goods to regain power.
What is tax?
300
Nobles became powerful by selling their land, known as these.
What is a fief?
300
People paid taxes for these.
What is basic rights?
300
wood and straw
What is a peasant's home?
400
People who were not that much more important than the nobles
What is the king and queen?
400
A series of holy wars, that helped weaken feudalism
What is the Crusades?
400
Farmers and peasants started to rely on nobles for this.
What is protection?
400
Loyalty was made public between these people.
What is a noble and vassal?
400
Smokey, smelly, and fire was always a constant danger
What is cities during feudalism?
500

Nobles got peasants to follow them by collecting this.

What is tax?

500
Who the people looked to for protection after the nobles were out of power
What is the central government?
500
Nobles gave land to these people willing to work and fight for him.
What is vassals?
500
Running away to a new town and living in it for at least a year
What is how serfs could gain freedom?
500
Leave the manor, or get married
What is what a serf couldn't do without permission?
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