May 16th

Today in Western Civilization we took notes on different vocabulary terms we learned that a lord was another name for a landowner and fief was the land that was granted to the lord, the person receiving the fief was called a vassal. Knights have mounted horsemen who pledged to defend their lord's lands in exchange for fiefs. A serf was somebody who could not lawfully leave the place where they were born and there wasn't much they could do to change that. A manor was the lord or landowners estate, and the last vocab term that we learned was tithe which was payments to the lord that peasant families had to pay and it was a church tax. Another thing that we learned is for most serfs both men and women life was work and more work. Their days revolved around raising crops and livestock and taking care of home and family. As soon as children were old enough they were put to work and that is probably the biggest difference between then and now.

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