How did the Middle Class grow in the Middle Ages?

Question:The middle class grew in the middle ages because of the fuedal system. lords were nobles(upper class) and lords had so much land that they gave land to the middle class in trade for their promise to fight for them when nessesary.(knights) over time, the lords had given land to so many people that they had an army. All knights were vassals and middle class citizens.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: The middle class grew in the middle ages because of the fuedal system. lords were nobles(upper class) and lords had so much land that they gave land to the middle class in trade for their promise to fight for them when nessesary.(knights) over time, the lords had given land to so many people that they had an army. All knights were vassals and middle class citizens.

technically there was no middle calss until the end of the baroque era and beggining of neocalssical and were finally established at the start of the enlightenment era... this was due to the Laissez Faire system of economoics which were brought in by Adam Smith. So acutally, there were only Lords and peasents, feudalism was based around 2 classes, nobility and peasent, a lord gae a fief(small plot of land) to a peasent in return for food and money taxes, as well as their promise to fight for the lord. but there was NO middle calss until the rise of the Bourgoisie