CHAPTER 7 To the Manor Born

A smart lord took good care of his serfs.

_____ is a large country house and its surrounding land.

The majority of people were farmers. Some were blacksmiths who made metal tools, horseshoes, and even swords.

In the third year of the three-field system, the fields were unplanted for the soil to recover and keep renewing itself.

Cooperation was essential to survival. People had to work together to create, produce goods, and share for trade.

Example: A ____ was required to give some of the food he planted on the estate to the lord.

_____ is a person living on a feudal estate who is required to work for the lord of the manor.

The lord would exchange labor, or serfs, for land.

The lord spent time building a community to bond and build cooperation among the people by ...

Serfs had to give the lord a portion of the ___ to the lord of the manor of the estate.

_____ is needing no help from others to live or survive.

People knew that if a field was farmed year after year, it lost its ability to grow healthy crops. They created the

_____ is a group of houses and buildings, smaller than a town, in a rural area.

The lord provided the following for farming ...

People from the village had to leave the estate and travel to go to Sunday worship, baptisms, weddings, and funerals.

_____ is an area of land or property.

The serfs were responsible for ...

People who lived on the estate depended on other countries to bring soap, candles, furniture, leather, tools, and cloth.

The next year, each field would be used the same.

_____ provided a mill to grind the grain grown on the manor, and large community ovens for baking the grain into bread.

The lord also protected the people who lived on the manor estate. If an enemy were to attack, ...

Serfs got to keep everything they grew or produced instead of giving it to the lord of the manor.

Only the king and the law of the ____ could limit the lord’s powers.

The lords had all the power such as

Example: The medieval manor estate was in many ways a _____ village.

Example: During medieval times, the lord and his family lived comfortably in the _____ house.

In much of northern Europe, each ____ lived in a castle or manor house.

Example: The medieval ___ included the lord’s manor house, fields for growing food, village, church, and graveyard.

The soil in England and northern Europe was rich, but the growing season was short and rainy.

In addition to the manor house for the lord, and cottages for the people who lived on the estate, there was ...

Example: Medieval Europe had few large cities, but it had a great number of small _____ .

Example: By rotating crops with the three-field system, farmers were able to regularly replenish the ____ in the soil.

The lord of the manor had many important responsibilities and the authority to make important decisions.

The people who lived in the villages during the Middle Ages were self-sufficient.

The manor house was usually surrounded by the land where the food was grown and villages.

The lord had the authority to ...

___ is something that provides what is needed to grow and live.

In the three-field system, the cropland on an estate was divided into three fields. Each year ...

The serfs had to provide services to the lord such as:

The fields that were not planted had a chance to recover _____ as old matter broke down and replenished the soil.