Fief

the people. Unfortunately the peasants fell under one of the last categories in this ranking system. This system was, according to dictionary.com, “the political, military, and social system in the Middle Ages, based on the holding of lands in fief or fee and on the resulting relations between lord and vassal.” It determined a persons job, the food they ate, the clothes they wore, their living conditions, and their health. It was a hard life in the day of a peasant, and this was the…

Even though Japan and Europe had never had any direct contact with each other during the medieval and early modern periods, they had very similar class systems known as feudalism. Feudalism was well established in Europe by 800 CE but appeared in Japan only in the 1100s. Feudal Japanese and European societies were built on a system of heredity classes, where the nobles were at the top, followed by warriors, with tenant farmers or serfs below. The following essay will discuss the similarities and…

Historically people have apparently really disliked Judaism, from their oppression(and various counts of genocide and mass murder over several hundred years) at the hands of the Romans and later Byzantines, oppression by Muslims, the Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, the hundreds of blood libels incited by christians from 700 CE to 1950 CE, their persecution, and murder, at the hands of Russian in in the early 1900s(and earlier), and of course, the Holocaust. We are however just focusing in on…

The Medieval Era was a time when a vast amount of questions outweighed accurate, rational answers. The advancement of knowledge was still a growing process, and the use of logic and reason was a foreign ideology to most people of the time. Instead of logic and reason, however, people of the Medieval Era looked towards the church for answers. With this system, anything unfamiliar or unorthodox was automatically determined to be evil or sinful. This toxic practice of presumption becomes a negative…

essay I have chosen to compare the Cid Ruy Diaz de Vivar with Superman, a fictional character, a comic book superhero and famous movies. The legend of El Cid sits in the era of the Middle Ages around the twelfth century, when society was divided into fiefs or kingdoms preceded by a King, who dominated a given territory and engaged in the defense and protection of its people. The subjects, in turn, pay taxes to contribute to the King in such objectives. El Cid was not a conflict but was…

the outside world away. Because of this constant fear of attack, lords and noblemen that owned land within Europe commissioned warriors known as knights to protect their manors and the peasants living within them. In return, the knights were payed a fief, or an amount of land, by the lords as a trade for their protection (Beck 1020). As well as protect manors, the knights were also known to fight in battles. These battles were the key thing to etch knights into history as brave warriors. The…

1.The Great Famine was mainly caused by severe weather. There were an unusual number of storms, which ruined crops people largely depended on, like wheat, oat, and hay crops. Food was scarce, and a price inflation ensued. The Great Famine profoundly impacted medieval society because it resulted in a higher mortality rate, higher crime rate, and less productivity from the laborers due to insufficient nutritions. Additionally, villages were abandoned and there was an increase in vagabonds, or…

Ancient Egypt is famous for the Great Pyramids but this Pyramid was primarily built by the lowest people on the social hierarchy, Slaves. Slaves were treated unfairly and in ancient Egypt there was no social mobility which meant a person born into slavery will die as a slave. Hundreds of years later the Roman Empire collapsed which later lead to the development of feudal societies in Western Europe. Feudal societies similar to ancient Egypt had an unfair social hierarchy. Instead of slaves, it…

Prior to the French Revolution, the Age of Absolutism brought about several absolutist leaders in eastern Europe such as Leopold I of Austria and Ivan the Great of Russia. Although an age of constitutionalism had been occurring at the same time in western European nations, including France, some aspects of absolutism were apparent in the reign of Louis XV as he spent much of the taxpayer money on France on wars, which he would be unable to pay off. Not only that, he increased the power of the…

Mark Edward Lewis presents a clear and obviously well researched Lewis starts The Book off with a primer in Chinese geography, in this he explains how china’s geography impacted major elements in China's history and how it specifically shaped customs and specific events. Among the most fascinating and impactful points he makes in terms of magnitude is his explanation on how China's geography contributed to the Period of Warring States. He explains “The limited arable land was further…