FEUDALISM AND

MANORIALISM*
CAUSE EFFECT

MUSLIM INVADERS FROM THE SOUTH THEY LEFT VILLAGES AND

SEIZED SICILY AND RAIDED ITALY. IN 846,
INVASIONS THEY SACKED ROME. MAGYAR INVADERS
MONASTERIES IN RUINS; WEAKENED
AUTHORITY OF CENTRAL RULERS;
IN WESTERN STRUCK FROM THE EAST. LIKE THE
EARLIER MIGRATORY GROUPS THE HUNS
THEY ALSO SPURRED PEOPLE TO
EUROPE AND AVARS, THEY TERRORIZED GERMANY
RELY ON LOCAL LEADERS FOR
PROTECTION AND DISRUPTED
AND ITALY. AND FROM THE NORTH CAME
THE FEARSOME VIKINGS. MEDITERRANEAN SEA TRADE

THE FEUDAL SYSTEM FORMED WHICH WAS BASED ON

THE WORST YEARS OF THE INVADERS’
RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS. THE STRUCTURE OF
ATTACKS SPANNED ROUGHLY 850 TO 950. FEUDAL SOCIETY WAS MUCH LIKE A PYRAMID. AT THE
DURING THIS TIME, RULERS AND WARRIORS PEAK REIGNED THE KING. NEXT CAME THE MOST
LIKE CHARLES AND ROLLO MADE SIMILAR POWERFUL VASSALS—WEALTHY LANDOWNERS SUCH
FEUDALISM AGREEMENTS IN MANY PARTS OF EUROPE.
AS NOBLES AND BISHOPS. SERVING BENEATH THESE
VASSALS WERE KNIGHTS. KNIGHTS WERE MOUNTED
THE SYSTEM OF GOVERNING AND HORSEMEN WHO PLEDGED TO DEFEND THEIR LORDS’
LANDHOLDING, CALLED FEUDALISM, HAD LANDS IN EXCHANGE FOR FIEFS. AT THE BASE OF THE
PYRAMID WERE LANDLESS PEASANTS WHO TOILED IN
EMERGED IN EUROPE.
THE FIELDS.

THE LORD PROVIDED THE SERFS WITH HOUSING,

DURING THE MIDDLE AGES, THE FARMLAND, AND PROTECTION FROM BANDITS. IN

ECONOMIC MANOR SYSTEM WAS THE BASIC RETURN, SERFS TENDED THE LORD’S LANDS, CARED
FOR HIS ANIMALS, AND PERFORMED OTHER TASKS
ECONOMIC ARRANGEMENT. THE
SIDE OF MANOR SYSTEM RESTED ON A SET
TO MAINTAIN THE ESTATE. ALL PEASANTS,
WHETHER FREE OR SERF, OWED THE LORD CERTAIN

FEUDALISM OF RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS DUTIES. THESE INCLUDED AT LEAST A FEW DAYS OF
LABOR EACH WEEK AND A CERTAIN PORTION OF
BETWEEN A LORD AND HIS SERFS. THEIR GRAIN.

Name: Sofia Molina *note all answers were taken Teacher: Ms. Melissa
directly from the trunity
Class/Section: 9B Date: 11/24/21
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