FEUDEALISM

• the dominant social system in medieval Europe, in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service, and vassals were in turn tenants of the nobles, while the peasants (villeins or serfs) were obliged to live on their lord's land and give him homage, labor, and a share of the produce, notionally in exchange for military protection.

ORDER

• he arrangement or disposition of people or things in relation to each other according to a particular sequence, pattern, or method.

MONARCH

• 1. a sovereign head of state, especially a king, queen, or emperor.

LORDS

• someone or something having power, authority, or influence; a master or ruler.

NOBLES

• a sovereign head of state, especially a king, queen, or emperor.

KNIGHTS

PEASANTS

• a poor farmer of low social status who owns or rents a small piece of land for cultivation (chiefly in historical use or with reference to subsistence farming in poorer countries).

MONOR

• a large country house with lands; the principal house of a landed estate.

TAX

• a compulsory contribution to state revenue, levied by the government on workers' income and business profits or added to the cost of some goods, services, and transactions.

SOCIAL GROUPS

• In the social sciences a social group has been defined as two or more people who interact with one another, share similar characteristics, and collectively have a sense of unity. Other theorists disagree however, and are wary of definitions which stress the importance of in

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CASTLES

• a large building or group of buildings fortified against attack with thick walls, battlements, towers, and in many cases a moat. synonyms:

KINGDOM

• a country, state, or territory ruled by a king or queen.

REGION

• an area or division, especially part of a country or the world having definable characteristics but not always fixed boundaries.

WARLORD

• a military commander, especially an aggressive regional commander with individual autonomy.

CHARLEMAGNE

• Charlemagne (/ˈʃɑːrlᵻmeɪn/; 2 April 742/747/748 – 28 January 814), also known as Charles the Great (Latin: Carolus or Karolus Magnus) or Charles I, was King of the Franks. He united most of Western Europe during the early Middle Ages and laid the foundations for modern France and Germany.

POPE

• the bishop of Rome as head of the Roman Catholic Church.

MANORLAL

• noun. 1. (in England) a landed estate or territorial unit, originally of the nature of a feudal lordship, consisting of a lord's demesne and of lands within which he has the right to exercise certain privileges, exact certain fees, etc. 2.

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SYSTEM

• a set of connected things or parts forming a complex whole, in particular.

FIEF

• an estate of land, especially one held on condition of feudal service.