WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Feudal society is a military hierarchy in which a ruler or lord offers mounted fighters a fief (medieval beneficium), a unit of land to control in exchange for a military service. The individual who accepted this land became a vassal, and the man who granted the land become known as his liege or his lord.

Detailed explanation-2: -A fief (/fiːf/; Latin: feudum) was a central element in medieval contracts based on feudal law. It consisted of a form of property holding or other rights granted by an overlord to a vassal, who held it in fealty or “in fee” in return for a form of feudal allegiance, services, and/or payments.

Detailed explanation-3: -The main thing medieval lords were supposed to provide for the vassals was military protection from enemies. If a lord upheld his responsibilities properly, he would call on his knights and other military forces to protect the homes, lives, and property of those who pledged service to him in times of war.