Reviewing for FINAL and Tuesday-Test

Yeah so we had to make a plan for the last 2 weeks of school.  So today we're reviewing for the Feudalism test on Tuesday.  Then we're reviewing for the final on Wednesday and that's our last day of class!...till the FINAL!

If I wanted to ace the Feudalism test,

I would look up the following terms in Chapter 11 in the textbook:

·         Feudalism: a term by historians to describe the type of government institutions, as well as the general social and political relationships, that existed among the warrior-landholders in much of Europe during the Middle-Ages

·         Feudal compact: an arrangement between a lord and his vassal involving the exchange of property for personal service

·         Fief: a grant of land and accompanying government responsibilities and power

·         Vassal: another word for servant

·         Knight: A man who served his sovereign or lord as a mounted soldier in armor

·         Homage: A vassal’s act of promising loyalty and obedience to his land 

·         Serf: “internal colonization” of Europe; bottom at the social ladder

·         Baron: a great lord who exercised government authority over vast family territory

·         Peasantry: those who farmed the land of manner owned by the lord

·         Estates: In the Middle Ages, the groups that made up society: often defined as those who pray, those who fight, and those who work

·         Manor: The principle framing property and social unit of a medieval community usually belonging to a member of the feudal nobility or to a Church institution

·         Three-field-system: A method of crop rotation designed to maintain the fertility of the soil and to provide for a regular supply of fall and spring crops

·         Internal colonization: the process of cultivating and settling in formerly wild land in medieval Europe

·         Suburb: land outside of the city walls

·         Guild: An organization of merchants of craftspeople who regulated the activities of their members and set standards and prices

·         Master: a craftsman who had the right to operate workshops, train others, and vote on guild business

·         Journeyman: a licensed artisan who had served an apprenticeship and who was employed by a master and paid at a fixed rate per day

·         Apprentice: a “learner” in the shop of a master

·         Masterpiece: a piece that shows your work to become a master in his art

·         Water mill:  a mill worked by a waterweel 

·         Iron plow: