Name: _______________________________

Use the reading information from class or the Internet site at http://kevin.lps.org/middle_ages/nobility_rdg.html to answer the following questions in complete sentences.

1. A lord’s estate is also known by what other name?

2. A medieval estate was considered self-sufficient. What does that mean?

3. Give 2 examples of how a medieval manor was self-sufficient.

A.

B.

4. What were 2 characteristics of a farmer’s houses?

A.

B.

*5. Explain why medieval farmers rotated the crops they grew year to year.

6. What were 2 services farmers performed for nobles?

A.

B.

7. What were the names of the 2 groups of peasants who worked on a manor?

A.

B.

8. What were freemen?

9. What were serfs?

10. Look back in the reading and list 2 freedoms of freemen.

A.

B.

11. How could serfs gain their total freedom?

12. What did serfs do to have fun?

13. Imagine what it would be like to be a member of a serf’s family. Write a diary entry describing a special event (the fall harvest, or an average day in the life of a serf).

Use the reading info. for your background of a serf’s daily life.