Fief

Feudalism made it 's way when the Carolingian dynasty started to gain more land. The reason it started was because people needed a source of protection. And with this the higher classes helped the lower classes with protection and land. The lower classes helped by giving work and working long hours, as much as they could for their land owners. The social structure in the Middle Ages was based around feudalism. Feudalism, the political system in which nobles were granted the use of lands that…

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would be distributed to lords who would then distribute that land to vassals for a promise of loyalty. A “lord” is a person that distributes land to a “vassal”. A vassal is a person who receives land from a lord. These pieces of land were called “fiefs”. And this system would go on and on all the way down the medieval hierarchy from kings to peasants. In the feudal system, everyone…

The Crusades were holy wars fought between Christians in Europe and Muslims in the Middle East. The key goal of the wars was to take control of Jerusalem and away from the Muslims, but there were other reasons why European knights and other people wanted to fight. The causes of the crusades were that Pope Urban II called for a holy crusade after the Byzantine Empire’s emperor asked him for help in regaining land for the Christians who lost the battle of Manzikert against the turks who were…

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is the lord and vassal relationships. Next you have the form of a personalized government; which had the most effectiveness at a local level, there was little to no separation between politics. Third there was a system of landholding which had the fiefs who in return for service could assure for more services in the future. Fourth was the existence of private armies it was looked upon to honor all military obligations. Lastly who had the rights of the lord over the…

their lord’s army. Specifically, the social dimension of feudalism consisted of manorialism, a strict hierarchy and reciprocity. Manorialism is an economic system by which the Lord of the land exploited the serfs or tenants who worked his estate, or fief. Villains had to work land in order to use it and feed themselves. A “holding” is a name for a large piece of land, which is like a county. Villains live in holdings and work the land under manorialism. This is where reciprocity comes into play.…

Their method of domestic control consisted of the Toyotomi assigning the lands as fiefs and giving them to local daimyos. Japan had a military dictatorship. Japan’s relationship with other nations was good at first. Japan had welcomed missionaries and the Portuguese to their ports and they traded but then Japan became an isolationist…

A lack of a centralized government can severely change a kingdoms’s stability and its ability to protect itself. This was evident in the medieval kingdoms in Europe. The changes in the political system, the economic changes, the social changes, and the changes in the stability of the kingdoms all played a part in the medieval kingdoms because of the lack of a necessary centralized government. Once the Carolingian Empire was divided after Charlemagne's death, there was much internal instability.…

Feudalism is system of government were many people would live on a manor including a lord, vassals, and knights. The lord would typically be the owner of the fief, he would then find vassals that would be willing to provide protection for him in exchange for use of the land, but not ownership. There is special ceremony performed to show the importance of this relationship called an homage, at this ceremony the agreement of the vassal providing physical protection to the lord, and the lord…