Unit 1

Renaissance: The Origins of a Western Worldview

Targets
Skill Builders

Lesson 3

What were the challenges to feudalism?

The feudal system lasted for hundreds of years, but eventually it began to break down.

Lesson 3 is about the kinds of pressures that caused the feudal system to weaken and ultimately disappear.

  • sumptuary laws
  • tithe


Watch

The peasants' revolts were a major cause for the decline of feudalism.

Click the link to watch the video, The Causes of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, to find out more.
The Cause of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381