Feudalism Vocab

Today in class, we searched for some vocab words to help get ready for the Feudalism test on Tuesday and to help a little with the exam.

1. Feudalism - a system use in Medieval Europe that thrived from the 19th to 15th century.
2. Feudal compact - an arrangement between a lord and his vassal involving exchange of property for personal service.
3. Fief - a grant of land and accompanying government responsibilities and power.
4. Vassal - a warrior in exchange for secure possession of land.
5. Knight - a man who served a sovereign or lord in exchange for land.
6. Homage - a vassal's act of promising loyalty and obedience to his lord.
7. Serf - laborers, often farmers and lower class people.
8. Baron - a great lord who exercised government authority over vast family territory.
9. Peasantry - those who farmed the land that was owned by a higher class.
10. Estates - in the Middle Ages, the groups that made up society: often defined as those who pray, those who fight, and those who work.
11. Manor - the principal farming property and social unit of a Medieval community, usually belonging to a member of the feudal nobility or a Church Institution.
12. Three field system - a method of crop rotation designed to maintain the fertility of the soil and to provide for a regular supply of fall and spring crops.
13. Internal colonization - the process of cultivating and settling in formerly wild land in medieval Europe.
14. Suburb - land outside the city walls.
15. Guild - an organization of merchants or craftspeople who regulated the activities of their members and set standards and prices.
16. Master - a craftsmen who had the right to operate workshops, train others, and vote on guild business.
17. Journeymen - a licensed artisan who had served an apprenticeship and who was employed by a master and paid at a fixed rate per day.
18. Apprentice - a "learner" in the shop of a master.
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