3.  Vikings & Saxons fought amongst themselves for 300 years  William of Normandy took advantage and was crowned King after winning the Battle of Hastings…

4.  STEP 1 – Make London submit to me, check.  STEP 2 – Replace this Anglo-Saxon government with the one already being used in Normandy for the past 150+ years. What’s it called? FUEDALISM

5.  THIS IS ENGLAND.. KING OF WESSEX KING OF EAST ANGLIA KING OF NORTHUMBRIA KING OF SUSSEXKING OF ESSEXKING OF MERCIAKING OF KENT  THIS IS IT’S KING

6.  THIS IS ENGLAND  THIS IS IT’S KING WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR

8.  King controls who he leases to, only people he trusts gets land (keeps power – no rivalries)  Baron is the judge and jury in his land, can give away as much as he needs (mini-King almost)  Knights could also keep as much land as they want, they were hired bodyguards and the true strength of any region.  Serfs were not slaves but were controlled by their Knights

9. ATHENIAN DEMOCRACY MONARCHY (Egypt & Macedon)MONARCHY (Roman Empire) MODERN DEMOCRACYROMAN REPUBLICSPARTAN OLIGARCHY MANY FEW ANGLO – SAXON GOV.

10.  So how do we know exactly who has what land?  I don’t want land with terrible terrain so I can’t grow crops while buddy over there gets nice beautiful Forrest with a stream running through it….  And what happens if a cow wanders from my land to my neighbors land…whose Cow is it.

12.  Commissioned by William the Conqueror  A survey of all of England, its land and resources  How many trees you had, how many pigs you, very very detailed…  WHY? So he could figure out how much he could tax everyone ;)

13.  http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/oxfordshire1. html#cadwell IIII. The Land of St. Peter of Westminster In ‘Ossulstone’ Hundred In the vill in which St. Peter’s Church is situated [Westminster] the abbot of the same place holds 13½ hides. There is land for 11 ploughs. To the demesne belongs 9 hides and 1 virgate, and there are 4 ploughs. The villein have 6 ploughs, and there could be 1 plough more. There are 9 villeins each on 1 virgate and 1 villein on 1 hide, and 9 villeins on each half a virgate and 1 cottar on 5 acres, and 41 cottars who pay 40 shillings a year for their gardens. [There is] Meadow for 11 ploughs, pasture for the livestock of the vill, woodland for 100 pigs, and 25 houses of the abbot’s knights and other men who pay 8 shillings a year. In all it is worth £10; when received, the same; TRE £12. This manor belonged and belongs to the demesne of St. Peter’s Church, Westminster.

14.  Feudalism working well…  BUT there was one small problem…  WILLIAM is the King Of England….but the Duke of Normandy  This means as Duke (Lord) he is under control of the King of France  King of England being controlled by King of France? :s

15.  Obviously the old Anglo-Saxon elite were not happy and many rebellions start through out the empire…..

16.  What as Alfred’s solution to stopping the Viking Raids?

17.  MOTTE & BAILEY CASTLE

18.  Needed to be able to govern the country and a way to show his presence in the area  Allowed him to keep a garrison all over the empire  By the 12 th C thought to be over 500 built in Britain…