Those Who Fight: Nobles In the Middle ages, ____ ruled the battlefield. They sat upon their horses with their bodies covered in ____ and charged their ____. Generally speaking, knights came from the ____ only the wealthy could ____ horses, armor, and ____. The nobles spent much of their time perfecting ____ skills such as ____ or ____. A noble was called a ____ and lived on a large farm called a ____. Those Who Work: Serfs On the manor, the people who worked were called ____. In return for some land to farm, the serfs gave some of their ____ and ____ to the lord of the manor. They also paid to use the lord’s ____ to grind their grain. Serfs also had to pay a tenth of their crops, called a ____ to the church. The serfs were not ____ to leave the land. But in return, the lord of the manor could not ____ them to leave the land either. Serfs generally had a very ____ life. Their children began work at an early age clearing ____ from the fields and chasing ____ away from the crops. Those Who Pray: Monks ____ was an important part of medieval life. And so, many people joined ____ and became monks. Monasteries were also important because the monks made ____ of old books. The best ____ in Europe were in the monasteries. Many of the monks were the ____ or third sons of nobles. They became monks because they could not ____ the manor when their father died.

Medieval Life

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