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Bellringer

Bellringer. Turn in any late work (Vocabulary/Current Events) Study for your quiz for 4 minutes! You may quietly quiz your neighbors. Feudalism and Manor Life. The Big Idea A complex web of duties and obligations governed relationships between people in the Middle Ages. Main Ideas

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Bellringer

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  1. Bellringer • Turn in any late work (Vocabulary/Current Events) • Study for your quiz for 4 minutes! • You may quietly quiz your neighbors.

  2. Feudalism and Manor Life • The Big Idea • A complex web of duties and obligations governed relationships between people in the Middle Ages. • Main Ideas • Feudalism governed how knights and nobles dealt with each other. • Feudalism spread through most of Europe. • The manor system dominated Europe’s economy. • Towns and trade grew and helped end the feudal system.

  3. Main Idea 3:The manor system dominated Europe’s economy. When knights received land from their kings, they did not have time to farm it. At the same time, there were poor people who needed a way to grow food. The manor system was a way to take care of both problems.

  4. The Manor System • A large estate owned by a knight or lord was called a manor. • The manor included a large house or castle, pastures, fields, and forests. • Most medieval lords kept one-half to one-third of the land for themselves. • The rest of the land was divided among peasants and serfs,workers who were tied to the land on which they lived.

  5. Serfs and Peasants • Although they were not slaves, they could not leave the land without permission. • They spent most of their time working for the lord in exchange for a small piece of land. • Farm labor was hard, and everyone worked, even children. • The lords wanted people to produce everything they needed to live.

  6. Manor Lords • The lords controlled everything that happened on their land. • They resolved disputes and collected taxes from the people on their land. • The lords lived more comfortably than the serfs and peasants, but they still had to worry about disease and warfare.

  7. Women in the Middle Ages • Women had fewer rights than men, regardless of social class. • Peasant women worked to support their families • Noblewomen ran households and supervised servants. • Eleanor of Aquitaine had great political power – ruled Aquitaine in France, and served as queen of France and England.

  8. Connect! • 1. Why didn’t knights farm the land they received from lords? • 2. Peasants were allowed to farm knights’ land in return for what? • 3. What did serfs get in return for working the fields on their lords’ land? • 4. What responsibilities did the lord have in running his manor? • 5. What role did women play in medieval society? • 6. How were the lives of nobles and peasants different? How were they similar?

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