Metal tools and weapons were provided to the community by blacksmiths, who could construct and repair these metal tools and weapons which made them one of the most important people that held a high social status among the peasants. Blacksmiths in the Middle Ages were important figures from the perspective of knights and the peasants because of their abilities to work with metal and hold together an economy and military. Feudalism is the political system that was developed in the Middle Ages, it was what kept order and supported all the classes in Europe. Culture was very important to the people because it was a requirement for them to attend church daily and during the Middle Ages, it was either convert to Christianity or die. Feudalism creates
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Feudalism is a special system that was made and used in medieval Europe. Feudalism was an economic, military and government system that was developed during the Middle Ages and has never been copied by any other system in the world (Biel 9). Peasants provided products for the nobles who gave them protection off of the land that the lord received from the king in exchange for loyalty and military. It was effective because of the promises and oaths made from one person to another. It was a system based on feudal oaths and contracts between lords and vassals, in this case a knight, in which a vassal would pledge loyalty and service to the lord who, in exchange, gave the vassal a gift/fee (Biel 9). Vassals were normally given fiefs, in which by the year 1000 C.E. had become a patch of land, that they could hold as long as he lived and served his lord (Biel 9). They were also entitled to rule all people who lived off the land and could take whatever he deemed appropriate from the land and people (Biel 9). Feudalism is a system that was based off of oaths and contracts that helped everyone receive and give to one …show more content…
Knights went through much during their lives to actually become a knight. They must go through knight training for a number of years at a young age and once they were at the age that they could serve a lord, they would have to pledge their loyalty and respond when they are called for to fight. Knights had to follow a special code, chivalry, which was an order that meant they were not to injure people who could not defend themselves and they were not to have any action during certain periods of time. Knights also had the chance of getting raised into the noble class. With feudalism in effect, vassals, or knights, were given a gift by the lord that they served for their service and the gift was often land that came with any serfs who lived on it. With this they could gain power and wealth. Knights were important figures in the feudal society and were a major part of how feudalism was
Feudalism is a special system that was made and used in medieval Europe. Feudalism was an economic, military and government system that was developed during the Middle Ages and has never been copied by any other system in the world (Biel 9). Peasants provided products for the nobles who gave them protection off of the land that the lord received from the king in exchange for loyalty and military. It was effective because of the promises and oaths made from one person to another. It was a system based on feudal oaths and contracts between lords and vassals, in this case a knight, in which a vassal would pledge loyalty and service to the lord who, in exchange, gave the vassal a gift/fee (Biel 9). Vassals were normally given fiefs, in which by the year 1000 C.E. had become a patch of land, that they could hold as long as he lived and served his lord (Biel 9). They were also entitled to rule all people who lived off the land and could take whatever he deemed appropriate from the land and people (Biel 9). Feudalism is a system that was based off of oaths and contracts that helped everyone receive and give to one …show more content…
Knights went through much during their lives to actually become a knight. They must go through knight training for a number of years at a young age and once they were at the age that they could serve a lord, they would have to pledge their loyalty and respond when they are called for to fight. Knights had to follow a special code, chivalry, which was an order that meant they were not to injure people who could not defend themselves and they were not to have any action during certain periods of time. Knights also had the chance of getting raised into the noble class. With feudalism in effect, vassals, or knights, were given a gift by the lord that they served for their service and the gift was often land that came with any serfs who lived on it. With this they could gain power and wealth. Knights were important figures in the feudal society and were a major part of how feudalism was