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| Feudalism | the most common political system of Europe during the Middle Ages |
| Manorialism | the economic system in Europe |
| King | the supreme overlord who granted land in return for military service |
| Lord/Lady | noble who controlled the land, had to take an oath to the King |
| Oath of Fealty | give allegience and loyalty to the overlord |
| Fief | the land that a vassal received after pledging allegiance to his overlord |
| Vassal | a person who takes an oath to a lord promosing services in return for land |
| Overlord | a person who received an oath from someone below them |
| Manor | a farm or estate on part of a lord's land. It produced virtually everything people needed |
| Knight | a mounted warrior during Medieval period who gave allegiance to his lord |
| Serf | poor people who were farmers who were bound to the land or the major that protected them |
| Fallow | crop rotatio - a field is not planted for one year to allow the soil to regain its nutrients |
