The Three Orders · Class 11 History · Chapter 4
🏛️ The Three Orders
CBSE Class 11 Humanities & Commerce · History · Chapter 1
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| 80% | What were the three orders + explain feudalism — Define three orders by function (pray/fight/work) → feudalism = land + loyalty (lord grants fief, vassal gives homage + military service) → manor + serfs beneath → Church as great landed power → conclude as one hierarchy. | 8 MARKS |
| 60% | Role of the Church / 'those who pray' — First order = clergy under the Pope; spiritual role + great landlord + tithe + monasteries + influence over kings; conclude on why it was the most powerful institution. | 4 MARKS |
| 55% | Source-based passage on manor / serf / Church / Black Death — Underline named terms; answer identify in 1 line, explain in 2; finish the evaluate sub-question with a chapter fact. | 5 MARKS |
| 45% | Condition of the peasantry / serfs vs free peasants — Serf = unfree, bound to land, labour service + dues, needs leave to marry/move (not a slave); free peasant = pays rent, not bound; peasants produced all the wealth. | 4 MARKS |
| 40% | The 14th-century crisis + decline of feudalism — Famine → Black Death (~1/3 die) → labour shortage + higher wages → peasant revolts → decline of serfdom → rise of centralised monarchies. Name famine, plague AND revolts. | 4 MARKS |
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