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Bell Ringer: A monarch dubs a kneeling young man a knight. Two knights sponsor and stand by him in this French illustration from the late 1200 s.

Topic 1. 2: Feudalism and the Manor Economy EQ: How do social hierarchies develop?

Medieval Christian Europe (330– 1450) Lesson 2 Feudalism and the Manor Economy Learning Objectives • Describe the development of the political and social system of feudalism. • Summarize the life of knights and nobles. • Analyze how the economic system of Manorialism worked and how it affected peasants and nobles.

Home Learning: Define Vocabulary Topic 1, Lesson 2 Feudalism and the Manor Economy VOCABULARY • • • Feudalism vassals feudal contract fief knight chivalry manor, manor system serfs

Activity: Feudalism Develops Read 56 -57. Answer questions 2, 3, 4 only. Feudalism Develops • Mutual Obligations • A Complex System

Feudalism Develops • Due to invasions kings and emperors were too weak to maintain law and order. • People needed protection. Vassal & Lord • Therefore, a political and economic system developed known as feudalism 1. A system of rule in which greater lords divided their lands among lesser lords (vassals) 2. In exchange, these vassals pledged military service and loyalty to the greater lord—feudal contract. 3. The greater lord gave his vassal a fief (lands, estate) fief

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• Feudalism was based on mutual loyalty and obligations. Analyze: What were some of feudalism’s advantages and disadvantages for medieval knights and peasants? Make a T-chart.

Bell Ringer: • Take a look at the picture. • Describe what you believe is occurring in this image. In one paragraph.

Activity: Nobles, Knights, and Warfare Read pg. 57 -58. Answer questions 5 -7 only. Nobles, Knights, and Warfare • The Life of a Knight • Castles and War • The Lives of Noblewomen • The Code of Chivalry

Nobles, Knights, and Warfare • During the Middle Ages, warfare was constant. • For medieval lords and vassals, it was a way of life. • Rival lords battled constantly for power. • Both greater and lesser nobles Frankish knight Godfrey of Bouillon. trained from boyhood for a future occupation as a knight, or mounted warrior. http: //www. history. com/topics/middle-ages/videos/heavy-cavalry-of-the-middle-ages

Nobles, Knights, and Warfare http: //www. history. com/topics/middle-ages/videos/weapons-of-the-middle-ages Castle warfare in the Middle Ages was brutal. As shown in this illustration, battering rams, catapults, and fighters on ladders assaulted stone walls. Defenders shot arrows and poured hot oil on attackers.

Knights: The Code of Chivalry • In the 11 th and 12 th centuries, the idea of chivalry developed. • It began in literature as poets/writers spread romantic tales of noble, usually fictitious, knights. • These stories developed into a set of rules and behaviors that knights were called on to follow. – The ideal heroic knight was influenced by courtesy, fairness, piety, and devotion to an honorable idea.

Manorialism Read pg. 58 -60. Answer questions 8 -10 only. Manorialism • • • An Economic System The Mutual Obligations of Lords and Peasants A Self-Sufficient World The Life of a Peasant Seasons and Celebrations

Manorialism • The manor, or lord's estate was important in medieval Europe. • Manors included one or more villages and the surrounding lands. • Peasants, who made up the majority of the pop. in medieval society, lived and worked on the manor. • Most peasants were serfs • Couldn’t leave the manor, but were not slave (they could not be sold)

Manorialism This diagram of the lands of a manor during Middle Ages shows where the lord's family and peasants' families live. • Manors often included villages and the land surrounding them. • medieval manor, which might include a manor house, a village church, a grain mill, storage barns, a blacksmith's shop, clustered peasant huts, and fields for crops and grazing.

Manorialism: Mutual Obligations of Lord and Peasant • Manorial system existed due to the King’s inability to protect people and the lack of trade in Europe. • Manors had to become self-sufficient. • Under the manorial system, lords and peasants had mutual obligations (responsibilities) – Peasants worked and pay fees (to use grind grain or mill), had the right to work the land – Nobles protected the peasants, couldn’t force peasant off the land • Lords and knights relied on the manor food, supplies, etc. A bird’s-eye view of a typical