Vassal

Serf

Fiefdom

Baron

Pauper

William the Conqueror

Harold of Wessex

King Henry II

King Henry VIII

Edward the Confessor

a type of Feudal castle

a legal code of Feudal France

a religious settlement during the reign of King Henry I

an open-market in southern England

an economic system of Feudal Russia

A serf who was tied to feudal land

A serf who had no political rights whatsoever

A knight who owed allegiance to a noble, but had serfs of his own

A knight who owed allegiance to a noble, but owned no property of his own

A nobleman who did not use serfs or other forms of slave labor

serfs

vassals

barons

knights

plebeians

the need for protection from invaders

political instability caused by the rise of the Ottoman Empire

the growing economic wealth of the Italian city-states

the growing influence of Christianity

the migration patterns of the nomadic people of Western Europe

Territory given to a vassal by a landowner in exchange for loyalty

A noble who owns property and controls the lives of the workers

A worker who toils in the fields

A pledge of loyalty to a landowner in exchange for protection

A pledge of loyalty to a landowner in exchange for territory