Download 1. Kings and nobles didn`t know how to protect their land, and they

Cause and Effect Chart:
Feudalism
1. Kings and nobles didn’t know
how to protect their land, and they
really needed to find a way to take
control of their land and manage it
They decided to build castles mostly
on hills, called motte and baileys
from a French word. They were not
elaborate structures made out of
wood.
2. Included fiefs and vassals. The
This complicated system was called
land that was given to knights
the feudal system or otherwise
became fiefs. Fiefs that accepted
known as the structure of feudalism.
land were called vassals. And the
lord was who the land was accepted
from.
3. When one of the fiefs or vassals
This oath included feudal
went into a battle they had to take obligations, called the oath of fealty,
an oath in order to.
3 items that were exchanged,
financial obligations, and lord
obligations, equaling a complicated
system, and supply military supplies
4. In some situations something may The lords “group” that he was in
have happened to the lord of the charge of had to ransom for the lord
group. For example he may have
to return in sign of the oath if
been captured or died
captured. If did the next “closest
vassal would take over and the rule
may have been weak.