Download Mrs. Boyd or Ms. Kimberly Eastern Hemisphere 7

Student _______________________________
Mrs. Boyd or Ms. Kimberly
Eastern Hemisphere 7
Medieval Europe & Feudalism Unit
Directions: Using the information from the resources answer the following questions about the structure of Feudal society.
1. Question: What responsibilities did monarchs have in the feudal system?
Answer: Monarchs kept ______________ and supplied _________________ to their ______________.
2. Question: Why is William the Conqueror considered an important monarch?
Answer: After his victory at the Battle of Hastings in ______, William brought the idea of ____________
to England.
3. Question: What responsibilities did lords have in the feudal system?
Answer: Lords were responsible for managing and ______________ their ____________ and acting as judges. They
fought for their own lords in time of ________, and supplied soldiers. They also appointed ____________.
4. Question: What was the role of noblewomen in the feudal system?
Answer: Noblewomen were responsible for ___________and training their __________ and sometimes the children
(s).
of other noble families. They were also responsible for overseeing their
5. Question: What responsibilities did knights have in the feudal system?
Answer: Knights were the mounted ____________in the feudal system and were expect to be ________to their
church and ________, to be just and fair, and to __________the helpless.
6. Questions: What was the code of chivalry?
Answer: The code of chivalry was the (code) set of rules of ______________ that all knights were expected to
live by.
7. Question: What stages did a boy go through to become a knight?
Answer: A boy started training for knighthood by becoming a ________, where he learned skills such as how to
ride a horse and how to sing. After ________years, he became a _____________ and learned how to fight as a
warrior. A deserving ____________ was made a knight in his early 20s at a special ceremony.
8. Question: What responsibilities did serfs (peasants) have in the feudal system?
Answer: Most peasants worked at raising ________ and tending _____________. Some worked as
carpenters, shoemakers, and smiths (_________________). Peasants paid taxes to the __________.
9. Question: How were lives of male and female peasants different?
Answer: In addition to working in the fields as the men did, the women had to care for their
_____________ and homes.
10. Question: What fees were required for serfs when they married?
Answer: When a woman married, she, her father, or her husband had to pay a fee called a ___________.
Student _______________________________
Mrs. Boyd or Ms. Kimberly
Eastern Hemisphere 7
Medieval Europe & Feudalism Unit
High Middle Ages______
to ______C.E. Late Middle Ages ______ to ______C.E.
Early Middle Ages 476 to _______C.E.
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Feudalism: An economic and political system in which people pledged
their loyalty. All the land in the kingdom “belonged” to the M_______
(usually a king but sometimes a queen). The king would keep some land
and would give f____ or grants of land to his loyal lords-a ruler or powerful
landholder, who then became the King’s v______. L_____ would gain
loyalty of lesser lords; in return they received protection from the lord.
K_______, or armed warriors, fought on behalf of their lords. Peasants
worked the land. At the bottom of the system were s____, peasants who
were not free to leave the lord’s land.
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