WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Beginning of Feudalism Around 900, nobles began protecting their people and lands from the Vikings. They built forts and fenced their lands. Peasants asked for protection. They gave the nobles their land and promised to work for them.

Detailed explanation-2: -Vassals are sometimes also referred to as lieges. In exchange for their services, most often serving as a knight to the lord, vassals were granted a fief. Fiefs are small portions of land which were granted to vassals of a lord for acts of importance.

Detailed explanation-3: -To protect his land from invasion, the king gave parts of it to local lords, who were called vassals. In return, his vassals promised to fight to defend the king’s land. Vassals ruled lands granted to them by their king. Those lands were called fiefs.

Detailed explanation-4: -Knights were considered elite soldiers in battles, wars and crusades, but when not in such situations, they usually acted as law enforcement officers of the local lord’s court or that of the queen.