mr. janes 8th grade history

2. OBJECTIVES
• YOU WILL …
1. ANALYZE THE GOVERNEMENT SYSTEM OF
THE FEUDAL MANORIAL SYSTEM.
2. COMPARE AND CONTRAST HOW IT RELATES
TO THE MODERN LABOR AGREEMENT
3. EXPLAIN HOW THIS SYSTEM DEVELOPED AS A
RESULT OF THE FALL OF THE WESTERN EMPIRE.

3. WARM UP
• READ THIS QUOTE….
• A Feud is the right which a vassal hath in land, or some
immoveable thing of his lord's, to use the same and take the
profits thereof hereditarily: rendering unto his lord such feudal
duties and services as belong to military tenure: the mere
propriety [property] of the soil always remaining unto the
lord".
• IN NO LESS THAN 4 SENTENCES, EXPLAIN
WHAT YOU THINK THIS QUOTE IS SAYING.

4. BURNING QUESTIONS
• EXPLAIN HOW THE FEUDAL SYSTEM IS
CONSTRUCTED.
• USING YOUR KNOWLEDGE GAINED FROM TODAYS
LESSON, EXPLAIN WHY THIS SYSTEM FORMED?
• WHAT ARE SOME GOOD AND BAD FEATURES OF
THIS GOVERNMENT SYSTEM?
• WHY DO YOU THINK THE POPE IN ROME HAD IN
SOME WAYS MORE POWER THAN A KING?

5. Germanic invaders raided the western half of the Roman Empire
1. Constant fighting
2. Disruptions in trade
 Cities no longer economic centers
3. Downfall of cities
 Governments collapsed
 Nobles retreat to rural areas
URBAN people move to RURAL areas

6. consequences of population shift to rural areas
literacy declined loss of common language
 Germanic invaders mixed with the Romans
different languages evolved from Latin
-French
-Spanish
breakup of unified empire
 kings couldn’t defend lands
 people loyal to local leaders with armies
only way to be educated was
through Catholic Church

7. REMEMBER:
the feudal system was based on rights and obligations
Lord-the landowner, he gave permission for people
to use his land
Vassal-the person using the land
Fief-granted land
Manor-the lord’s estate

11. King
Nobles
&
Church Officials
Knights
Peasants
Serfs

12. • The land legally belonged to the king

13. • Nobles granted use
of land if they
Swore loyalty to king
Gave military services
to king
• Powerful vassal
• Wealthy
• Controlled Knights

14. Noblewoman
• Could inherit estates from
her husband
• Held little property
Land passed to sons
• Could send knights to war
• If husband was off fighting
 Appoint a Military
commander
Fight as a Warrior
• Basic education

15. Church Official
• Powerful vassal
• Church was the bond
among the divided social
classes
• Peasant families paid a
tax of one-tenth of their
income (tithe) to the
church

16. • Nobles were always fighting each other
Needed skilled warriors to defend land
• Pledged to defend land in exchanged for fiefs
• Wealth from land allowed them to devote lives to war
• Started training at age 7

17. • Worked land
• Cared for animals
• Maintained Estate
• Owed lord
Several workdays a
week
Portion of grain
produced
• Paid high taxes to live on land
• Most traveled no more than
25 miles from where they
were born

18. • Worked next to men in
fields
• Ran households and had
children
• Girls learned household
skills

19. • People who couldn’t leave the
place they were born
• Not slaves
 Couldn’t be bought or sold
- all labor produced belonged to lord
• Lord provided
Housing
Farmland
Protection from bandits
• Created everything the lord
needed
• Most children didn’t survive till
adulthood

20. king
Noble Church
Official
Knights
Peasants/Serfs