WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The house formed the administrative centre of a manor in the European feudal system; within its great hall were held the lord’s manorial courts, communal meals with manorial tenants and great banquets.

Detailed explanation-2: -Located within the manor would often be a mill used to grind wheat and other grains to make flour. The mill was located along a stream or river because they ran on water power (picture an old-fashioned water wheel).

Detailed explanation-3: -The manor was the lord’s estate. During the Middle Ages, the manor system was the basic economic arrangement. The manor system rested on a set of rights and obligations between a lord and his serfs. The lord provided the serfs with housing, farmland, and protection from bandits.

Detailed explanation-4: -There were usually large fields around the Manor used for livestock, crops, and hunting. The only people allowed to hunt in the manor’s forests were nobles. Buildings usually present on a manor were: a church and a village that had blacksmiths, bakers, and peasants’ huts.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.