Read each paragraph and then choose the letter of the main idea
By 1066, the English social system was elaborate and stable. There were many strata.3
At the
bottom were serfs or slaves; next cottagers or cottars; then villeins, who farmed as much perhaps
as fifty acres; then thanes, who drew rents in kind from the villeins; then earls, each ruling one of
the six great earldoms that covered the country; and above all, the king.
Adapted from David Howarth, 1066 (New York: Penguin, 1977), 14.
Main Idea:
a. There were six ruling English earldoms in 1066.
b. In 1066, villeins were people who farmed perhaps as many as fifty acres.
c. The English social system in 1066 was stable and had many strata.
d. At the top of the entire English social system in 1066 was the king.
c
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