Feudalism & Manor Life
This was a grant of land given under the system of feudalism.
What is a fief?
This was the largest and most powerful religion in medieval Western Europe.
What is the Roman Catholic Church?
One major factor in Muslim imperial expansion was the use of these.
What are effective military strategies?
The Mali Empire helped spread this religion and its culture.
What is Islam?
The Black Death originated in this country.
What is China?
This economic system was based mainly on farming and self-sufficiency.
What is the manor economy/manorialism?
The Church held great power because people believed it could influence this eternal outcome.
What is salvation?
Islamic expansion increased cooperation among regions largely by facilitating this exchange of goods and ideas.
What is trade / cultural exchange?
Under this ruler, Mali became famous for rich cultural and economic interactions through pilgrimage and trade.
Who is Mansa Musa?
Many people believe the Black Death was spread by these parasites carried on rats.
What are fleas?
This farming method increased crop production by dividing land into three rotating fields.
What is the three-field system?
This idea helped Christianity legitimize rulers by teaching that a ruler's authority came from God.
What is divine right?
The expansion of Islam helped spread trade and this across continents.
What is knowledge?
The expansion of Mali increased these across West Africa and beyond.
What are trade routes and connections?
The Black Death spread from this broad region toward Europe.
What is East Asia?
Put these medieval social classes in order from highest to lowest: knight, monarch, peasant, noble.
What is monarch → noble → knight → peasant?
True or false: Most people in the Middle Ages could read and write.
What is false?
The spread of Islam encouraged the establishment of these centers of higher learning.
What are universities and knowledge centers?
Chinese dynastic expansion encouraged development of this major overland trade network.
What is the Silk Road?
Because so many people died, this _____ ______ gave surviving serfs more bargaining power.
What is a labor shortage?
A lord was expected to provide these two things to serfs.
What are protection and equipment?
In medieval Europe, social class was determined mainly by this.
What is birth?
Along with military strength, this helped Muslim empires expand by bringing different peoples into a wider religious and cultural world.
What is religious and cultural integration? (Muslims didn't have classes other than believers and non-believers.)
Indian Ocean trade helped create this East African culture blending Bantu, Arabic, and Persian influences.
What is Swahili culture?
What is had no answers or solutions to the plague?