🏰 Owned large estates called manors
⚔️ Followed a code of chivalry
🌾 Could not leave the manor without permission
⛪ Collected tithes and provided education
🏰 Provided land in exchange for military service
⚔️ Trained from age 7 as a page, then squire
🌾 Worked the fields and paid rent with crops
⛪ Monks and nuns preserved knowledge in monasteries