The Feudal System: Serfs, Nobles, and Manor Safety
Learn how the feudal system in medieval times led to serfs working on nobles' land for protection. The protectors, also known as nobles or vassals, owned the self-sufficient manors and provided safety for their people.
The Feudal System: Serfs, Nobles, and Manor Safety
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Danger & need for protection led to people working on others land for protection. • These people became known as SERFS, who were laborers, paid taxes, farmed & more for protection. • The protectors had soldiers & small armies that could protect the people for their loyalty (or fealty) & service. • The protectors became known as nobles, lords, vassals, or knights & owned the land serfs worked on. • The land was called a MANOR • A manor had everything it needed & no one needed to leave it, this is called self-sufficient. = safe
