Friday, May 16, 2014

Feudalism

Today in class we went over the last test, and started a PowerPoint on Feudalism, which is the middle ages and dark ages.
Here are the notes
Only teach kids what their job is on the manor
Spend their whole lives within a few miles
Education has nothing to do with their lifestyle
Manor is the land owned
King isn't a part of the people's life, there for not important

Most people are Catholic in Europe
Feudalism:
  • A political, military, and economic system based on land-holding and protective alliance
  • In other words: they system is based on personal loyalty to people who can help
  • Government is not a main part.
  • Knights are hired and loyal to the lord hiring you
  • Vassals: the people that help the rich people hold their land.
The Feudal Pyramid-
King
The most powerful Vassals
(Nobles and Bishops)
Knights- mounted warriors who received Fiefs for defending their lord's land
Peasants (mostly Serfs)
(Landless, powerless, moneyless, rights-less)
(Just working the land for "the man" (their lord)]
-majority of people are poor
Mind your manor:
  • Manor: the lord's estate
    • The lord's manor house
    • A church
    • Some workshops
    • 15-30 families
    • All on a few square miles
  • Good news: it is a self-sufficient community
  • Bad News: It is hard if your are a peasant
Peasants:

  • Poor and pay high taxes
  • Tax on grain
  • Tax on marriage
  • Church tax (tithe- 10 percent tax on their income)
  • Live in crowded cottages

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