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The best of the best might become a knight. While common soldiers weren’t held in much better regard than many serfs, they had better quarters and were better clothed and fed.
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The next layer of the pyramid were knights and soldiers. These enjoyed a better status in life although they worked just as hard to survive. While the great many serfs had no education or special skills, some showed promise and had an aptitude for woodworking or as a blacksmith. One small step up from serfs were freemen and craftsman. Serfs helds various jobs in a feudum - from working the fields, harvesting the resources of the land or working to make sure the buildings of the land were kept in repair, their lot in life was a hard one. Unlike slaves, however, they could not be bought, sold, or traded. They could not leave the land of their birth without permission and gave up much of what was produced to their lord. Serfs were just the regular people of their day who lived in the villages and worked the land of the feudum. Almost 90% of the population of Medieval Europe were serfs.
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In almost all cases, your position in the pyramid depended on your birth status and nothing more.Īt the bottom rung, were the serfs and peasants. Medieval societal structure was like a pyramid with the lower class creating the large base while slowly moving higher with more “royal” and less people occupying higher slots. But the European lords must of liked the pyramid design because they copied it, not in architecture, but for their society. The ancient Egyptians built their pyramids long before there were castles and knights in Europe.
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