Important People
This person crowned Charlemagne as emperor of the Romans.
Who is Pope Leo III?
This was the medieval model of government predating the birth of modern nation-state.
Ex: A Ruler/lord would give a knight a fief (land) in exchange for a service.
What is Feudalism?
The mountain range that divides Europe and Asia.
What is the Late Middle Ages?
Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are all...
This person signed the Magna Carta.
Who is King John?
These people worked the land, and they were tied to plots of land and forbidden to move elsewhere:
What are serfs?
This is the largest peninsula in Europe.
What is Scandanavia?
This time period lasted from 400 - 900 A.D.
What are the Early Middle Ages?
The Vikings had an advantage because their ships could do this.
What is travel through shallow water?
Also known as 'Charles the great' - he was an emperor or king who developed feudalism & ruled much of Europe from 768 - 814. He was king of the Franks.
This disease killed an estimated 25,000,000 people.
What is the Black Death/Bubonic Plague?
This Continent has many physical features and climates. The border between this continent and Asia is the Ural Mountains.
What is Europe?
This time period lasted from 900 - 1250 A.D.
What are the High Middle Ages?
There were this many crusades to win back the 'Holy Land'.
What is 8?
This was a french peasant girl who rallied the French troops.
Who is Joan of Arc?
This includes those chosen or elected to be king or queen of a country during the Middle Ages.
What is a monarchy?
The capital of the west was this place.
What is Rome?
In this year Charlemagne was crowned emperor of the Romans.
What is 800?
No one could escape the plague and people did not understand why. Many people began to question the power of ...
What is religion?
These two people ruled all of Spain by the late 1400's ending the Reconquista.
Who are King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella?
This listed the basic rights that King John had to recognize. Many of it's ideas became the basic principles that modern democratic governments are based on.
What is the Magna Carta?
What is Constantinople?
This war lasted from 1337 - 1453 and it was fought between England and France.
What is the Hundred Years War?
In return for land, knights provided the nobility with loyalty and protection. The knightâs role was as a _____.
What is a vassal?