Feudal Europe: lords, vassals, knights and serfs, and life on a manor
Grade 7 Social Studies Worksheet - Building Confidence
Circle the best answer.
Milo's chain has a blank: what did the vassal do after the grant?
- Became the king
- Left the land for good
- Sold the land at a fair
- Swore an oath of loyalty to the lord
Noah's chain has a blank: what did the lord promise the vassal?
- Protection
- A new name
- Loyalty and payments
- Wages by the day
Pia reads the word fief. What is a fief?
- A promise of loyalty
- A rule made by a guild
- A tax on bread
- Land held from a lord in return for service
What does fealty mean, Ren asks?
Use the picture in question 3.
- A field left to rest
- Money paid at a market by farmers and traders
- Land given by a lord
- Loyalty a vassal owes a lord
Tala reads the word vassal. What is a vassal?
Use the picture in question 3.
- A trader at a fair
- Someone who holds land from a lord
- A paper listing a town's rights from the king
- The lord who grants the land
Which box in the chain is the first cause, Zee asks?
Use the picture in question 3.
- The vassal owes service
- A lord grants a vassal land
- The oath of fealty
- The lord promises protection
What did the vassal owe the lord, Ari asks?
Use the picture in question 3.
- A new fief
- Protection
- Loyalty, service and payments
- Nothing in return
By when was granting land for service becoming standard, Bo asks?
Use the picture in question 3.
- By the 700s
- Today
- By the 100s
- By the 1200s
Why would a lord grant land to a vassal, Esme asks?
Use the picture in question 3.
- To get rid of the land for nothing
- Because vassals owned the land first
- To get loyalty and service in return
- To make the vassal a king
Why do we say the lord and vassal had duties each way, Kira asks?
Use the picture in question 3.
- Each one promised something to the other
- The vassal gave and the lord took without giving back
- They lived far apart
- The lord gave and the vassal took