The period of the Middle Ages goes from 1.000 A.D. to 1.500 A.D.
What was the period of the Middle Ages?
The King gave pieces of land called fiefs to the lords.
What did the King give to the lords? What was it called?
The people who lived on the lords land and served them.
Who were the vassals?
The fief usually consisted of the castle, the village, and the farm land around it.
What did the fief consist of?
The people who lived in the village and worked on the land.
Who were the peasants?
The noble boys that wanted to become knights started traning at the age of 7.
When did noble boys start training?
At 14 they became squires.
When did noble boys become squires?
They took care of the weapons and the horses
What did the squires do?
They cooked, cleaned, did the laundry and other chores.
What did the servants do?
The chaplain conducted religious cerimonies and provided spiritual instruction for the people from the fief.
What did the chaplain do?
