Politics+(5th+period)


 * Essential Question: What was the political system like in the Medieval period? How were towns, villages, and countries ran and by whom?**
 * The political system in the Medieval period, mainly consisted of a King/Church, Lords, and Knights. This system was called the feudal system The King or the Church had all the say so, whatever they had to say everyone had to listen and do so. Kings and Churches had total authority, they were considered the judge and jury for disputes amoung their various vassals. Churches and Kings ruled all the land, declared wars, decided laws and taxes, and were highly respected by all the people in their territory. Lords were wealthy landowners who lived in royalty and got much respect from Kings and churches. The Lords had farms that provided food for the people in the country. Knights job was to protect the Kings ruled lands and to conquer other lands if the King had said so.**

Lords were considered right below the King. Lords were land owners who were wealthy and provided food for the people in villages. Lords had easy lives, having peasents work on their land for very little money. Knights were centered around Kings and Lords; protecting kings castle, lords land, and fighting for Kings territories. Peasents were considered laborers. That worked on a Lords land they did numerous jobs like; reaping, sowing, ploughing, binding, thatching, haymaking, threshing, and hedging. Peasents rarely recieved any respect from upper class society. This kind of relates to today in our society. **Villages in the middle age revolved around social classes. Which are depicted below.**