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?
- One effect: the serf becomes a lord
- Freedom, but the loss of land rights
- Freedom, and more land on the manor to farm
- The lord's permission to stay
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 had no work of any kind
- Towns turned serfs away on arrival
- 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
- Not quite: it also cost the serf land rights
- Agree: the serf gained land too
- Agree: freedom was the one effect
From when was demesne work more and more changed into money payments, Kira asks?
- From the 700s
- Before markets grew
- From the 1900s
- From the 1200s
What did serfs do instead of working days on the lord's land, Luz asks?
Use the picture in question 4.
- Paid cash
- Moved to Florence
- Paid nothing
- Worked twice as many days
Which box is the first cause in the cash chain, Milo asks?
Use the picture in question 4.
- Work is changed into money payments
- The open-field system
- Trade and markets grow
- Serfs pay cash
The note says manorialism faded away slowly and piecemeal. What does that mean, Noah asks?
Use the picture in question 4.
- It grew stronger
- It ended in one year across the whole of Europe
- It moved into the towns
- It ended bit by bit, in different places
Which sentence fits the note about the word "feudalism", Pia asks?
Use the picture in question 4.
- It is a settled fact with no debate
- Historians have stopped studying the Middle Ages
- The word fits the Middle Ages exactly, as historians agree
- Historians disagree about how useful the word is
Ren's note says, "Feudalism was the same across Europe." Which reply fits?
Use the picture in question 4.
- Agree: the note says so
- Agree: manors ended in one year
- Not quite: historians debate the word, and manors changed
- Disagree: there were no manors
Zee's note says, "A serf who reached a town was free the next day." Which fix is right?
- Change it: the serf had to live there more than a year
- Leave it: freedom came the next day
- Change "town" to "manor"
- Change "free" to "a lord"