Activity 1: Definitions



Fief: A fee or feud held of a feudal lord; a tenure of land subject to feudal obligations.
Vassal: A person granted the use of land, in return for rendering homage, fealty, and usually military service or its equivalent to a lord or other superior; feudal tenant.
Homage: The formal public acknowledgment by which a feudal tenant or vassal declared himself to be the man or vassal of his lord, owing him fealty and service.
Feudalism: Any social system or society, such as medieval Japan or Ptolemaic Egypt, that resembles medieval European feudalism.
Nobility: The state or quality of being noble.
Villains: A cruelly malicious person who is involved in or devoted to wickedness or crime. 
Servants: A person employed by another, especially to perform domestic tasks.
Tithe: The tenth part of agricultural produce or personal income set apart as an offering to god or for the church.


Looking for here at some point involved in the Middle Ages. Watch the film a sequence that can relate the concepts.
Vassal, homage, feudalism, nobility. 
Ýou can relate this sentences when the king of England cut the head of William Wallace.