1. 1. What does “Middle Ages” mean?
2. After the fall of Rome, what was the state of government in Europe?
3. What was the religion that the Moors practiced and brought with them from Arabia?
4. What was Charlemagne's nickname?
5. Who was responsible for ending Charlemagne’s empire?

2. So… Kings were too weak to keep order in the land.
People needed protection from invaders.
So…

3. (COULD BE VASSAL TO ONE ABOVE AND LORD TO SOMEONE BELOW HIM)
LORD GRANTS FIEF (LAND plus peasants, towns and buildings on the land)
VASSAL OWES LORD SERVICE**

4. VASSAL SUPPLIED LORD WITH CAVALRY, INFANTRY, RANSOM, ETC.
ATTENDED CEREMONIES, ETC.

5. ALL VASSALS & LORDS WERE NOBLES!!!!!

6. FEUDAL SOCIETY VERY STRUCTURED—MANY TITLES OF NOBILITY
VASSALS COULD ALSO BE LORDS OVER LESSER NOBILITY
VASSALS ALSO GOT FIEFS FROM MANY LORDS

7. KNIGHTHOOD
KNIGHTS WERE VASSALS WITH NO ONE UNDER THEM

8. KNIGHTHOOD
TRAINING
AGE 7: PAGE
TEENS: SQUIRE

9. NOBLE WOMEN
WATCHED OVER MANOR
SUPERVISED VASSALS
MANAGED HOUSEHOLD

10. CHIVALRY CODE OF CONDUCT BRAVERY, LOYALTY, PROTECT & CHERISH WOMEN
RULES OF BATTLE

11. FEUDAL JUSTICE BATTLE: FIGHTING ORDEAL: DIFFICULT TASK
OATH-TAKING: WITNESSES SWEARING THE TRUTH

12. FEUDAL WARFARE
FREQUENT
BETWEEN LORDS FOR HONOR, LAND, MONEY, ETC.

14. FEUDAL WARFARE
PEASANTS SUFFERED

15. FEUDAL WARFARE
PEACE OF GOD: DICTATED WHERE BATTLES COULD BE FOUGHT

16. FEUDAL WARFARE
TRUCE OF GOD: DICTATED DAYS WHEN THEY COULD NOT FIGHT

17. SOCIO-ECONOMIC SYSTEM IN THE MIDDLE AGES
MANORIAL SYSTEM
SOCIO-ECONOMIC SYSTEM IN THE MIDDLE AGES

18. (PEASANT BOUND TO THE LAND)
LORD
SERF
(PEASANT BOUND TO THE LAND)
CROPS, LABOR ON DOMAIN, PAYS FOR MILL, GIVES GIFTS, ETC.
LORD GIVES LAND TO FARM, PROTECTION & SHELTER

19. LORD NOBLEMAN LIVED IN MANOR HOUSE (CASTLE) DOMAIN: LORD’S LAND
FREE TIME: HUNTING, TOURNAMENTS, FALCONRY, ETC.

20. MANOR LORD’S LAND (DOMAIN) & HOUSE (CASTLE) VILLAGE FIELDS WOODLANDS
SELF-SUFFICIENT

21. SERFS VAST MAJORITY OF POPULATION UNEDUCATED POOR DIET
SHORT LIFE EXPECTANCY

22. A DAY IN THE LIFE… WORK SUN UP-SUN DOWN MEN & WOMEN WORKED THE FIELDS
CHILDREN TENDED TO ANIMALS
LIFE EXPEC. AGE 35