Feudal Europe: lords, vassals, knights and serfs, and life on a manor
Grade 7 Social Studies Worksheet - Challenge Me
Circle the best answer.
In the town chain, what two effects follow from moving to a town, Bo asks?
- Freedom, but the loss of land rights
- One effect: the serf becomes a lord
- The lord's permission to stay
- Freedom, and more land on the manor to farm
Why might a serf choose to stay on the manor, Esme asks?
Use the picture in question 1.
- Leaving meant losing land and a farming living
- Towns turned serfs away on arrival
- Towns had no work of any kind
- Freedom came after one day
Jun's friend says moving to a town had one effect: freedom. Which reply fits the chain?
Use the picture in question 1.
- Disagree: the serf stayed bound
- Agree: freedom was the one effect
- Agree: the serf gained land too
- Not quite: it also cost the serf land rights
From when was demesne work more and more changed into money payments, Kira asks?
- Before markets grew
- From the 1900s
- From the 1200s
- From the 700s
What did serfs do instead of working days on the lord's land, Luz asks?
Use the picture in question 4.
- Paid cash
- Worked twice as many days
- Moved to Florence
- Paid nothing
Which box is the first cause in the cash chain, Milo asks?
Use the picture in question 4.
- The open-field system
- Serfs pay cash
- Work is changed into money payments
- Trade and markets grow
The note says manorialism faded away slowly and piecemeal. What does that mean, Noah asks?
Use the picture in question 4.
- It ended bit by bit, in different places
- It ended in one year across the whole of Europe
- It moved into the towns
- It grew stronger
Which sentence fits the note about the word "feudalism", Pia asks?
Use the picture in question 4.
- Historians have stopped studying the Middle Ages
- It is a settled fact with no debate
- Historians disagree about how useful the word is
- The word fits the Middle Ages exactly, as historians agree
Tala's note says, "As trade grew, serfs worked more days on the demesne." Which fix is right?
Use the picture in question 4.
- Change "trade" to "fields"
- Change it: work was changed into cash payments
- Change "serfs" to "lords"
- Leave it: trade meant more work days on the demesne
Ari's note says, "Money payments began before markets grew." Which fix is right?
Use the picture in question 4.
- Leave it: payments came first
- Change "markets" to "manors"
- Change it: markets grew first
- Change "payments" to "fiefs"