Feudal Compact - An arrangement between a lord and his vassal involving the exchange of property for personal service.
Fief - A grant of land and accompanying government responsibilities and power.
Homage - A vassal's act of promising loyalty and obedience to his lord. Pledge of allegiance.
Baron - A great lord who exercised government authority over vast family territory. Better than a lord.
Vassal - A warrior who agreed to serve a greater warrior in exchange for secure possession of land.
Lord - The hereditary possessor of lands, revenues, and powers over lesser warriors and peasants.
Manor - The principal farming property and social unit of a medieval community usually belonging to a member of the feudal nobility or to a church institution.
Estate - In the middle ages, the groups that made up society, often defined as those who pray, those who fight and those who work.
Serf - The laborers, farmers, etc. Lower class people, poor.
Knight - A man who served his lord and he was a warrior. Soldier in armor.
Three field - one field from spring, one for fall, one for extra jazz.
Suburb - outside the wall
Guild - a union
Master - becomes a master after master piece
Journeymen - create a master piece to become a master
Apprentice - become journeymen
Peasantry - Class of poor people