Which of the following statements best describes the system of manorialism used in medieval Europe?
A. Land belonged to the Catholic Church and could only be used for worship.
B. People who worked the land were bound to it and had few rights.
C. Land was owned equally by everyone who worked on it.
D. Farmers produced only as many crops as they needed to survive.

The best description of the system of manorialism used in medieval Europe would be that "B. People who worked the land were bound to it and had few rights," since it was in fact that lords who had most of the rights over the peasants.

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palebadgworthy palebadgworthy · Answer 2 · 2019-01-14T17:42:38+01:00

The correct answer is B.

Manorialism was the system that governed economic relationships during the medieval era in Europe.

The privileged social groups, nobility and clergy, were landowners. They granted their fields to peasants, who could cultivate them for a living in exchange for becoming vassals to their lords, who had total rights over them. On the first hand, peasants had to pay "taxes" to their lords to be able to feed themselves from their fields, and had to obbey any of their orders. In turn, lords promised protection to their vassals, as they were powerful enough to have some military forces under their command.