1. Warm Up – October 2 Need one post it per pair –
Draw a tic tac toe board
One person be X, one person O
Person who is X ask the first question, O answers – only write your letter down when you answer the question correct
Use your study guide to ask questions (Ex. What three groups influenced Roman culture and how?)
If you finish a game, play again

2. Feudalism and the Manor System
Unit 4: Middle ages
Feudalism and the Manor System

3. Western Europe Early Middle Ages

4. Government Feudalism – government during Middle Ages
Based on trading land for loyalty
King - owns the land
Gives pieces of land to nobles
Nobles - promise to fight and run the land for the king, give him part of harvest

5. Feudalism Knights - soldiers for nobles & kings – protect the land
Serfs – bound to the land they were born on = live and work on the noble’s land
90-95 % of population
Do all the farm work
Have to give most of what they grow to the landowner
Not allowed to travel or marry without noble’s permission

7. The Economy of the Middle Ages
Manor System – economy during Middle Ages
Manor = castle
Serfs live on noble’s land, grow all the food
Give most of what they grow to noble as taxes
Very little trade; manors produce everything they need

8. Manor System

9. Manor System Eight parts: 1. Castle – The Manor 2. Village Church
3. Harvesting Fields
4. Small Vegetable Gardens
5. A Mill
6. Grazing Fields
7. Peasant Homes
8. Village Blacksmith

10. TOD – October 2
Answer the following questions on a post it using your notes from yesterday:
1. What people invaded the western part of the Roman Empire bringing it to an end?
2. How were the new Germanic Kingdoms different than life in Rome?
3. What leader would expand this new empire across western Europe and attempt to unite kingdoms back into an empire?
4. What was the government of the Middle Ages?
5. Who owned the land in feudalism? Who ran the land in feudalism? Who protected the land? And who worked on the land?