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Title: Feudalism


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Feudalism
  • I. After the Fall of Charlemagne
  • 1. No strong central government
  • 2. Cities became unsafe
  • 3. Money became worthless
  • -What did people value when
  • became worthless?
  • -LAND
  • 4. Landowners became rulers
  • -Land Lords or Lords
  • -Lords maintain law and order
  • -Manorial System
  • -Feudalism

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II. Feudalism
  • 1. Lords
  • a. Powerful landowners
  • 2. Knights / Vassals
  • a. Warriors who protected Lord
  • given land as payment
  • 3. Fief / Feud
  • a. Land given to a Knight or Vassal

www.answers.com/topic/feudalism
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II. Feudalism continued
  • 4. Lord Knights Contract
  • a. Knight Promised
  • -Military protection
  • -Payment of taxes
  • -Entertain the Lord
  • -Protect Lord from capture
  • b. Lord Promised
  • -Land
  • -Military equipment
  • -Maintain roads, buildings
  • -Issue law and order
  • -Serve as a Judge

  Feudal System
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II. Feudalism continued
  • 5. Breakdown of Feudalism
  • a. Boost in trade
  • -rebuilt cities
  • -new jobs available
  • b. Money increased in value
  • -people left manors
  • -find city jobs
  • c. Invention of armor piercing arrows
  • -Knights became obsolete

www.geocities.com/.../peasants_revolt.htm
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III. The Manorial System
  • Self-sufficient
  • Able to run by itself, without outside
    support
  • 1. Manor-
  • a. Plot of land owned by the Lord
  • -Including the Castle or Manor House
  • 2. Serfs-
  • a. poor working class who worked on the Manor
  • 3. Castle-
  • a. Fortified mansion designed to repel
    attackers
  • 4. Lord Vassal Contract
  • a. See slide 3
  • 5. Tournament
  • a. Contests between Knights
  • -joust, race, games, etc
  • -entertain the Lord
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