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7th grade Feudal Europe: lords, vassals, knights and serfs, and life on a manor worksheet

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Feudal Europe: lords, vassals, knights and serfs, and life on a manor

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Circle the best answer.

1.
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
2.
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
3.
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
4.
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
5.
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
6.
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
7.
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
8.
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
9.
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
10.
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"

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Feudal Europe: lords, vassals and serfs, and life on a manor. Every version has 10 questions, and the answer key prints on the second page.

What your child will learn

I can explain a fief, homage and fealty, and the duties a lord and a vassal owed each other.
I can read a manor chain where duties run both ways, explain that serfs were bound to the land, and show how the lord's income had two causes.
I can explain how work duties became cash payments, weigh what a serf gained and lost by moving to a town, and say why historians debate the word feudalism.

Standard: D2.Eco.1.6-8

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Your child reversed cause and effect. The cause comes first and makes the effect happen.

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