production steps 1.stand and put your hands on your shoulders. 2.reach down to your desk and select...

Production Steps

1. Stand and put your hands on your shoulders.2. Reach down to your desk and select a seed

(crumbled piece of paper) from an imaginary bag by bringing your elbows together.

3. Reach down to the floor.4. Plant the seed by releasing your elbows.5. Sit down at your desk.6. Write the word of your assigned product on

the piece of scrap paper.7. Continue planting seeds by repeating steps

1-6.

LESSON 14 – THE ECONOMIC SYSTEM OF MEDIEVAL EUROPE

FOCUS MIDDLE SCHOOL WORLD HISTORY © COUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION, NEW YORK, NY

Production Table

Group Round 1 Round 2 Round 3



Manor System

• Under feudalism in Medieval Europe, the economic system was manorialism.

• An economic system is the way in which a group organizes to determine what to produce, how to produce, and for whom to produce.

• The lord’s land consisted of 25 to 30 percent of the arable land of the manor plus the manor house, barns, stables, workshops, gardens, mills, and ovens.



Manor System

• Serfs were bound to the land. Lords might leave but serfs stayed with the land.

• Serfs’ land was in large fields divided into strips. A peasant household had possibly two dozen strips scattered throughout the open fields.

• Serfs of a manor agreed on what and when to harvest. This was called communal farming.



Manor System

• Serfs planted only half their fields each year. The other half were left fallow each year to preserve soil fertility. This was called two-field crop rotation.

• Serfs worked the land for the lord three to four days week. Few markets existed where the lord could buy goods and services. They relied on the serfs to produce most goods.



Manor System

• Serfs had to grind their grain in the lord’s mill and bake bread in the lord’s oven for a fee.

• Serfs had to pay other fees collected on a regular basis or on special occasions. Fees could be as high as 50% of goods that the serf produced.



Economic Systems

Traditional Command Market

What to Produce

Custom Central authority

Whatever is profitable

How to Produce


Least costly method

For Whom to Produce


Highest bidder



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