Across
- 1. A unit of land, originally a feudal lordship, consisting of a lord's demesne and lands rented to tenants. This place also includes carpenters, shoemakers, smiths (metalworkers), and other skilled workers.
- 2. Certain lords and monarchs hire peasants, and serfs do a lot of physical ______ for the entire day, as it included tending livestock and raising crops.
- 4. When a woman married, she, her father, or her husband had to pay a fee called a ________.
- 6. Peasants decided to hide these small objects in their houses, as they hated the fact that they had a huge portion of the grain taken away from the lord.
- 7. They were not included in the ______ relationship of the vassal lord, but they supported the entire ______ structure by working in the land.
- 8. one of the things that peasants had to tend towards, as they are commonly referred to as farm animals.
- 10. Unfree peasants, or ______, farmed the lord's fields and could not leave the lord's manor.
- 11. pre-industrial agricultural laborer, or a farmer with limited land-ownership, especially one living in the Middle Ages under feudalism and paying rent, tax, fees, or services to a landlord.
Down
- 1. a person who operates a mill, a machine to grind grains to make flour.
- 3. Peasants ate vegetables, meat such as pork, and dark, coarse bread made of wheat mixed with ______ or oatmeal.
- 5. In addition, the lord could demand a tax, known as ______, whenever he needed money.
- 6. Money the yearly payment/tax that the peasants and serfs have to pay to the lord.
- 9. A person regarded as having a mutual obligation to a lord or monarch, in the context of the feudal system in medieval Europe.