Fuedalism review

Sorry forgot to post this for last week!
• Feudalism: studies the relationship between landowners and warriors; terms used by historians to describe governmental system; government and social institutions
• feudal compact: Lord would grant a fief (property) to the knight, who then become lord's vassal(servant)- this was feudal compact; an exchange of property or personal service an agreement and formal contract with a person
• Fief: Property-- Lord gives this to a knight to become his vassal in the contract
• Vassal: a warrior who agreed to serve a greater warrior in exchange for secure possession of land;
• Knight: a warrior, has to go through apprentice with an older knight, eminent with a lord in feudal compact
• Homage: a vassal's act of promising loyalty and obedience to his lord
• Serf: a peasant bound to work for a landowner -a lifelong hereditary status-as a condition for hereditary possession of a small farm
• Baron: a great lord who exercised government authority over vast family territory
• Peasantry: lowest group of estate, "those who work" the common people in town and countryside, including everyone from wealthy merchants and lawyers to landless farm workers, whose labors supported the clergy and nobles as well as themselves
• Estates: In the middle ages, the groups that made up society; often defined as those who pray, those who fight, and those who work
• 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
• three-field-system: A method of crop rotation designed to maintain and fertility of the soil and to provide for a regular supply of fall and spring crops
• internal colonization: The process of cultivating and settling in formerly wild land in medieval Europe
• Suburb: a village outside of walls
• Guild: an organization of merchants or craftspeople who regulaed the activities of their members and set standards and prices
• Master: A craftsman who had the right to operate workshops, train others, and vote on guild business
• Journeyman: A licensed artisan who had served an apprenticeship and who was employed by a master and paid at a fixed rate per day
• Apprentice: A "learner" in the shop of a master
• Masterpiece:  The final product of a merant, carpenter or such
• water mill

and yes, iron plow