FEUDALISM

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1.  What was Feudalism?
2.  What was an oath of allegiance?
3.  Who took an oath of allegiance?
4.  What was a vassal?
5.  What was the name given to a Lord’s estate? F______
6.  Did the peasants have to pay the lord rent?
7.  What was the feudal burden?
8.  There was slavery for the peasant at this time in Europe. What name was  used for an enslaved peasant? S_______
9.  What was the name of the tax (10% of their produce) that peasants had to pay the church?
10.  Did the Church have to pay taxes?
11.  Why did ambitious people want to have a career in the Church?
12.  What do you know about Church courts?
13.  What was the Court Leet?
14.  What do you know about Medieval justice?
15.  What would the King provide a Lord for taking an oath of allegiance to him?
16.  What did a vassal promise to the King?
17.  What did the King give a vassal?
18.  How many days would a peasant work on a Lord’s demesne? Why would he do this?
19.  What was the demesne?
20.  How could a peasant obtain their freedom?
21.  Could peasants read?
22.  What documents were they able to read and why?
23.  In what ways was the life of a medieval peasant better than now?
24.  In what ways was the life of a medieval peasant worse than now?
25.  What did peasants usually eat?
26.  Why did they tend to drink beer rather than water?
27.  What name referred to all those that worked for the church? C___________
28.  What name was given to the monks & nuns? The R___________ C___________
29.  What name was given to the priests & bishops? The S___________ C_________
30.  Give four examples of Military Orders
31.  What was the role of a Military Order?
32.  What was the ceremony of homage in feudal society?
33.  What does it mean to leave a field fallow?
34.  Why would a peasant leave a field fallow?
35. What did it mean if you were excommunicated?
36. Which religious order lived in a monastery?
37.  Which religious order lived in a convent?