Understandings

Understandings

Consider the following statements:

• A good leader considers the will of the people.
• To maintain control, you must have power.
• Standing up to oppression takes great individual courage.

In view of what we have learned in our unit on the Middle Ages, choose one of the above statements and justify it through examples from our unit and if possible with examples from modern day society.

In view of what my class just learned in this unit on the middle ages I had to chose one of these topics to right about. " A good leader considers the will of the people, to maintain control you, you must have power and stranding up to oppression takes great individual courage. I am going to right a paragraph on maintaining control, you must have power. 

To maintain control, you must have power. Duke William maintained control. He has a lot of power since he was king of england. One thing he had to keep control was that he was governing the country. Duke didn't want the old English nobles to keep their estates. They would be very powerful. They could even overthrow him. He was very careful not to randomly give land away. Since he had suporters they were regarded by doing duties to perform too. This is called the Feudal system. There is something called the "Doing Homage." The place, Normandy was when the bishops or the barons were given land. An oath is a promis and they had to swear on one of loyalty. They had to do this to the lord giving it. The bishops and or the barons then becomes tenants-in-chief. The decided to provide knights which were mounted soldiers to guard castles or fight in wars for lords. They chose many nights by the land the baron was provided.