Medieval Europe
Manorial system
* The peasants worked the land but the lords ruled the manor.
* Some of the peasants were freeman who had to pay the noble to farm on the land.
* Even though the lords owned the serfs the lords could not sell them or take away their land.
* The peasants had to pay The Lord for about everything like villages mill bread oven and wine press.
* If peasants wanted to be free thy could run away or was allowed to buy their freedom.