Thursday, March 19, 2009

Feudalism Fair?


We have spent the last 4 weeks talking about Feudalism: The government of the Middle Ages. We have compared Feudalism to a chess board with the King on top and the Pawns on the bottom. But was Feudalism GOOD or BAD? How would your opinion differ if your were a lord? A serf? Use examples from the book.
Comments:
we think fudilism was good because it protected everyone the lord had knights that protected the people and fought wars and the pesants got protected because they farmed for the lord
 
Are table think that feudalism is good. We think this because it was shared by many people and also it helped restore trade. And it secured Western Europe's society and keep out powerful invaders. the belief in this united lords and knights in defending their society.
 
We say that it is both good and bad, this is because to the lords and kings Feudalism is good and to people like peasants it is bad. We think this because you could never "change your stars" in Feudalism witch is good to the King and bad for the peasants. This is why we bealive Feudalism is both good and bad.
 
Period 1,

We think Fuedalism Is bad for Serf because you have to stay on your land and work for the lords for four days. They get protection, but they cant leave.

Fuedalism for a lord is good because he just tells everyone what to do and when to do it. He has to protect all those under him.

Fuedalism for a vassal is good because he can work and get repaid with protection and land. But they do less work and can leave .

Over all it is good because laws and protection allows them to not worry about bandits and expand their Manor.
 
We think that feudalism was good because it set everyone in there place and no one could overtake and cause disturbances in the government. It also protected the serfs. Also back then feudalism was the best form of government. It could have been much work. Without feudalism Europe's government would have fallen apart.
 
We think Feudalism was bad and good. It was bad because it did not treat people equally, there was no strong government to enforce laws fairly,and lords could make harsh demands.
Feudalism is good because it helped protect communities from violence and warfare.
 
The lords must have thought that feudalism was great because they were in charge of everything - they were like kings.
Serfs must have hated feudalism because they couldn't move up in social class. They were bossed around and forced to farm for the lord owning the land.
We think that feudalism was a good thing because the lords protected all the peasants and serfs.
 
We think Feudalism is bad because if you were a serf then you wouldn't go up in society. They didn't have total in set laws so that the lords could easily lie and and nobody could know or do anything about it. When they disagreed on subjects it was resulted in violence. If you were a lord you had the easy life. Everybody did everything for you. And the lords were very unfair to the serfs or vassles because the serfs and vassles did EVERYTHING for the lords. The serfs had no rights which was very unfair in our opinion.
 
We think feudalism is bad because if you were a peasant or serf you never got to move up in the feudal system.
If you were a king you would probably think that feudalism was good because you were at the top and in charge of anyone below you.
If you were a peasant or serf you would think that is was bad because you had to work the land and for many generations you wouldn't be any better or higher than what you started out with.
*Period 4*
~Dana
Paige
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Feudlism is mainly bad but in this time there was no goverment at all and feudlism brought western europe togather and gave them protection
 
Emily's opinion:
I think that feudalism is bad because you cant move up.

Hanna's opinion:
its bad because they had no strong central government which led to many lethal wars, serfs could not leave their lords land without permission, and serfs worked lands 3 or 4 times a weak.
 
We believe that Feudalism is not the best social and political order. Sure, it was great to be a knight, vassal or king but there were so few of them and many peasants who worked for the lords their whole life. The kings could do anything they wanted with force and their peasants couldn't leave their lands. Their government wasn't strong enough to enforce laws fairly so it was easy to use force and violence, and lie to get their ways.
 
We think that feudalism is bad because it is unfair to serfs because only the king had all the power and surfs were like lowlifes and had no power.
 
We think that fuedelism is good and bad because it helped them all work together and be safe. It was bad because people didn't have their freedom, they weren't treated equally.

the sky walkers
 
We said that they agree that feudalism was a good thing because secured their society, kept out powerful invaders, helped restore trade, benefitted the lords by letting them a gain a dependable fighting force, benefitted the vassals by letting them have land, benefitted the peasants by having the peasants protected by the lords, and did not allow one person to have too much power
 
w think that fuedalism was good for the lords and he kings and the queen and the nobles it sucked for the serfs though.we feel bad for them
 
Feudalism was not fair because not everybody has the same rights as higher class people. Higher class people were unfair and lie to get what they wanted.


Skywalkers
Period 7
 
The McBurgers think feudalism is bad because some serfs and vassals were treated unfairly.
The lords and kings benefited from the serfs and the vassals work.




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We think feudalism is bad because the serfs would be
controlled and the lords would get most of the food while they made serfs do all of the work. also the vassals only got land if they served in military.

obiwans 7th
 
I think that feudalism helped the development of Western Europe because it protected the people and the community while it was being developed.
 
We think Feudalism was good because it protected the people and it kept one person or group from getting to powerful. Feudalism also helped restore trade.
 
we think feudalism is good because it helped protect communities from the violence and warfare that broke out after the fall of rome.
 
They are bad because the serfs were treated horribly and the people above them got all the rewards for their work. And your born into a social class and you cant ever change and you do not earn it
 
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i think feudalism is good because it benefited everybody...the lords, serfs, etc....
 
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WELL I THINK ITS ONLY GOOD ON PAPER THATS IT NOT REAL LIFE!!!
 
I think feudalism was good and benefited most everybody. In some ways it was unfair but in order to live you have to follow the rules.
 
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Because of the power struggle between the king of the feudal system and the pope, the crusades were allowed to happen. Knights could have caved into fighting because they saw the power the pope had over the king when he had the king excommunicated. Without the crusades, Europe’s development would have been slowed down, and they would not create those trade routes. However, it probably would have advanced anyways because the the advancements started in around 900.
 
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