Feudalism and Manorialism

Fiefs

________- an estate of land, especially one held on condition of feudal service.

Feudalism

________- an economic system in which landholders gave protection to people in return for work.

Vassals

________- a holder of land by feudal tenure on conditions of homage and allegiance… to put it another way, a person or country in a subordinate position to another.

Serfs

________- an agricultural laborers bound under the feudal system to work on their lords estate.

Feudalism

________ emerged gradually between the fall of the Western Roman Empire (fifth century) and the collapse of the Carolingian Empire (tenth century) as a means of work for protection.