WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN EUROPE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Large areas of agricultural land where lords lived with all their staff were called ____
A
kindgoms
B
fiefs
C
manors
D
plantations
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Barons leased land from the King that was known as a manor. They were known as the Lord of the Manor and were in complete control of this land. They established their own system of justice, minted their own money, and set their own taxes.

Detailed explanation-2: -A fief is a small section of a larger piece of land called a manor. Fiefs were granted to servants or vassals of a lord for their important contributions to society.

Detailed explanation-3: -The manor system was made up of three types of land: demesne, dependent, and free peasant land. Manorial structures could be found throughout medieval Western and Eastern Europe: in Italy, Poland, Lithuania, Baltic nations, Holland, Prussia, England, France, and the Germanic kingdoms.

Detailed explanation-4: -A manor was usually comprised of tracts of agricultural land, a village whose inhabitants worked that land, and a manor house where the lord who owned or controlled the estate lived. Manors might also have had woods, orchards, gardens, and lakes or ponds where fish could be found.

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