January 13, 2010

Agenda• Writing Prompt• Go over homework• Feudalism review• Serf to King game

Goal: What societal conditions lead to feudalism?

Writing Prompt• Which is better/more fair/more

effective? Why?

1.Sales tax (a tax on what you buy)

2.Income tax (a tax on what you earn)

3.Head tax (set amount you owe regardless of income or purchases). Like a membership fee

Feudalism Review – pop quiz

1. Describe the chaos of the Dark Ages? Why was there chaos? Give three examples of things that were broken or ineffective.

2. How does one become a noble (way back at the beginning)?

3. Why do political leaders want the church’s approval?

Feudalism Game

• Everyone gets a part!• You can trade parts until the simulation

begins.• You are graded on participation. Grumbling

and complaining that is out of character will cost you points!

KING

Count Duke

Lord Knight Lord Knight

Serfs 1-4

Serfs5-9

Serfs10-14

Serfs 5-19

Bishop

Activity – Do not eat your candy!!!!

If you are a serf you need to go walk up and down the stairs 3 times. I’m not kidding.

Everyone else find a comfortable spot.

Stair climbing represents harvesting the crops.

The crops are in

• Everyone gets 10 pennies to represent their crops.

• For easy accounting, keep the pennies you started with separate from the pennies you get from your vassals.

Time to pay up

• Serfs spend some of their time working for their lords, so much of the harvest belongs to him. Each serf needs to pay his lord or knight 8 pennies.

Pay it up

• Lords and knights owe allegiance and taxes to their lords (the Count and the Duke). Each knight and lord needs to pay 6 pennies for each 8 collected from the serfs.

For example, if you have 3 serfs under you, you owe your lord 18 pennies.

Now for the king

• The Count and the Duke still owe the king. For every 6 pieces you collected from your vassal you need to pay the king 4.

The church collects its due…

• Serfs owe one penny• Knights and Lords owe 2• Count and Duke owe 3• King owes 4

Invasion.

• I’m a neighboring bad guy. Knights and lords owe me one penny.

• This penny represents their cost of providing protection to their serfs.