The decline of the feudal system | History | Quizalize & Oak National Academy

Starter quiz

What 'ism' is another term for the feudal system?
- 'feudalism' ✓
Which is the best definition for a labourer?
- a person doing skilled work for wages
- a person doing unskilled work for wages ✓
- a person who works in return for land to farm
- a person who rents land for money
Which king issued the Ordinance of Labourers in 1349?
- King Edward I
- King Edward II
- King Edward III ✓
- King Edward IV
- King Edward V
The Ordinance of Labourers was followed in 1351 by the ______ of Labourers.
- 'Statute' ✓
Which of these terms best describes the process of obtaining something by discussion?
- argument
- disagreement
- negotiation ✓
- order
- revolt
Which of these aspects is something that the Statute of Labourers told labourers they must do?
- They must go back to their old lords if they had left them.
- They must not negotiate new jobs.
- They must not negotiate to gain more land.
- They must follow rules about payments if they negotiate a new job. ✓

Which king introduced what became known as the feudal system to England?
- Edward the Confessor
- William I ✓
- William II
- Henry I
- Stephen
In the feudal system, all land was 'borrowed' from the ______, and those who borrowed it became his vassals by paying homage for the land.
- 'king' ✓
When do historians agree the feudal system ended in England?
- Sometime in the 11th-12th centuries
- Sometime in the 12th-13th centuries
- Sometime in the 13th-14th centuries
- Sometime in the 14th-15th centuries ✓
Which of the following could be used to support the argument that lords tried to strengthen the feudal system after 1348?
- A decline in fines issued by lords against peasants
- An increase in fines for peasants wishing to move away ✓
- Peasants who escaped being forcibly returned ✓
- Peasants forced to pay fines when they married ✓
Rodney Hilton's work argues that lords did everything they could to prevent 'their' ______ from negotiating better wages and more freedoms.
- 'peasants' ✓
Which historian is associated with research in East Anglia that suggests the Black Death accelerated the decline of feudalism?
- Mark Bailey ✓
- Rodney Hilton

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Peasants were a social group with no wealth or property rights under the feudal system.
The feudal system was showing signs of weakness before 1348.
Some historians argue lords reimposed feudalism after 1351.
Some historians argue lords were incapable of reimposing feudalism after 1351.

Medieval people called their social system 'the feudal system'.

In fact, the term feudal system or feudalism did not start to be used until the 17th century.