The Feudal System
This is a diagram representing the feudal system. Basically what happened was that, the king, would own all the land in England. He would then give some to his faithfull barons, in return for them helping him rule the country. The Barons would then give some of their land to the knights, in return for them serving them and helping them defend if an attack or rebelion happened. And then, the knights would give some of their land to the peasants, in return for them doing all the dirty work: harvesting, making clothes etc. This would be very unfair for the peasants, but this system was clever in the way, that if you did something wrong, you would lose all your land. But if you had this system working with money, (the king gives money to barons, barons to knights, knights to peasants) Then, if they did something wrong, the culprit could have already spent the money!