Historical Skills
This type of source was created during the time period being studied.
What is a primary source?
Islam began spreading in this geographical peninsula.
What is the Arabian Peninsula.
This famous Viking raid in the 8th century is often used to mark the beginning of the Viking Age.
What is the raid on Lindisfarne?
This social system organized medieval society around land ownership and loyalty.
What is feudalism?
The Black Death killed millions of people in Europe during the 14th century. Give one other common name for this pandemic.
What is The Plague, The Great Pestilence, The Great Mortality, Bubonic Plague
Historians use this type of evidence when they study buildings, tools, coins, and other physical remains from the past.
What is archaeological evidence, artefacts?
This city became the home of Muhammad and his followers after they left Mecca.
What is Medina?
Besides raiding, Vikings were also known for other activities. Name two.
What are trading, exploring, and settling.
A person who received land from a more powerful lord was called this.
What is a vassal?
This bacterium caused the Black Death.
What is Yersinia Pestis?
Two historians study the same evidence but reach different conclusions. This is possible because historians must do this with evidence.
What is interpret evidence (or analyze evidence)?
This city became a major center of learning, trade, and scholarship during the Abbasid Dynasty.
What is Baghdad?
This type of vessel helped Vikings travel across oceans and rivers.
What is a longship?
In exchange for land, nobles were generally expected to provide these two forms of support.
What are military support and political loyalty?
These painful swollen lymph nodes were a common symptom of bubonic plague.
What are buboes?
A historian wants to know whether Vikings reached North America. Name TWO different types of evidence that could help answer this question.
What are archaeological remains, written records, artifacts, settlements, etc.?
Historians often explain the rapid rise of Islamic empires using these two factors.
What are strong leadership and weak neighboring empires?
Name THREE places or regions historians believe Vikings reached.
What are England, Ireland, Iceland, Greenland, North America, France, Eastern Europe, Middle East, Iberian Peninsula, etc.?
Name TWO reasons feudalism began to decline.
What are the Black Death, growth of towns and trade, stronger kings, professional armies, etc.?
Name TWO ways the Black Death spread between regions.
What are fleas (travelling on rats and people) biting people, merchants and people following trade routes, travel by ship, general movement of people.
Give the date and event historians attribute to the start of the Middle Ages in Europe, as well as the date and event sometimes attributed to the end of the Middle Ages (*hint* They both relate to the "Romans").
What are 476 CE (Fall of Rome / Western Roman Empire to Germanic tribe, or 'Barbarians') and 1453 CE (Fall of Constantinople / Byzantine Empire to Ottomans)
Give BOTH dates:
What are 622 CE and 630 CE?
Give BOTH:
What are 793 CE (Lindisfarne raid = start of Viking Age) and 1066 CE (Norman Conquest of England = end of Viking Age)?
Explain how the Black Death helped weaken feudalism.
What is labour shortages increased workers' bargaining power and reduced noble control?
Give the date on which the Black Death arrived in Europe
What is 1347 CE