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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| feudalism | A system where the king gave land to nobles in exchange for loyalty and military service. |
| black death | a disease that spread across europe in the 1300 and killed millions. |
| vassals | people given land by a lord in exchange for loyalty and military service |
| serfs/peasants | farmers who worked on a lords land. serfs were not free to leave the land |
| tenants-in-chief | powerful nobles who received land directly from the land. |
| hierarchy | an arrangement or system in which items, people, or concepts are ranked above or below each other, often from highest to lowest authority or importance. |
| barter system | an ancient method of exchange in which goods and services are traded directly for other goods and services without the use of money. |
| manorialism | a medieval European system organizing economic, social, and political life around a manor, where peasants worked the land under the authority of a lord in exchange for protection and subsistence. |
| lord | was the central figure of authority and landownership on a manor, exercising legal, economic, and social power over the estate and its peasants while managing agricultural production and ensuring protection. |
| fiefs | was a parcel of land granted by a lord to a vassal in exchange for services, forming the economic and social foundation of medieval feudal society. |
| knights | served as mounted warriors who provided military service to their lords in exchange for land, privileges, or protection, forming a crucial link between the feudal hierarchy and the rural economy. |
| nobles | wealthy landowners |
| tenure | holds or uses land |
| fidelity | faithfulness |
| homage | promise |