Where did most people live in the middle ages? (remember you have to spot the fib or the wrong answer.)
in the countryside
in cities
The Lord lived in a house called...
The moat
the manor
who lived in castles?
the peasants
the rich and powerful
The lord received a lot of land from the King, he kept some for himself and the rest he rented to peasants. the land he kept himself was called what?
a fief
demesne
how many big fields were in a medieval village?
4
3
Each peasant received how much land?
a strip of land in each field
one whole field
How did peasants pay tax?
money
crops
this tax was called what?
title
tithe
?how much did the peasants have to pay
one tenth
two thirds
there were no walls in middle age fields so it was known as ......
free land
commonage
where did peasants ground their wheat?
the mill
the quern
a serf was not allowed to do what?
own a cow
leave the village
rich medieval people ate venison, this is from what animal?
a deer
a goat
rich people also ate birds such as
swan
robins
in the middle ages they practiced the 3 field system, this meant they left one field empty every year, this was called leaving a field.........
sallow
fallow
