Early Middle Age
The Early period of the Middle Ages is also known by another name.
What is the Dark Ages?
The High Middle Age began around the year
what is 1000 C.E.
This disease killed 30%-50% of Europe's population.
What is the bubonic plague or the Black Death
This entity was the single most holder of wealth and the biggest landholder in Europe
What is the Roman Catholic Church
A peasant who belongs to the land
a serf
The amount of time in the Early Middle Age period.
How long is 500 years?
Monarchs were granted the Divine Right to Rule by this entity
Who is the Roman Catholic Church
or Who is the Pope
The Hundred Year's War was waged between these two countries.
Who are France and England
The Church instructed monarchs to send armies to free this land from Islamic rule
What is the Holy Land? or Jerusalem or Israel or Palestine
a person who owes complete subservience to their lord
a vassal
Northern Europe's small kingdom's and warlords were vulnerable to attack from these raiders.
Who are the Vikings?
Rulers who didn't comply with the Church's authority suffered this punishment
What is excommunication?
King Edward l of England established the 1st political body that included clergy, nobles and commoners.
What is the Model Parliament?
Individuals undertook these journeys for God
What is a pilgrimage?
a set of people in authority who are arranged in descending order by their power and prestige
hierarchy
Petty kings and warlords offered protection to those who worked the land in return for their loyalty and acceptance of the warlords' or monarchs' complete authority over their lives in a system called ...?
What is feudalism?
These organizations strengthen the political power of merchants and craftsmen
What are guilds
This document eventually became known to insure the rights and liberties of the English people
What is the Magna Carta
All legal documents in Europe were written in this language by Church clergy.
What is Latin?
those who carry out the business of a church or religious institution
clergy
These people attacked Europe from the south while Eastern Europe was being attacked from the steppes of central Asia by these people.
Who are the Islamic and Magyar people
Many towns purchased these from the monarch to break away from feudal control
What is a royal charter?
This legal term means you can't legally accuse a person of a crime when there is no evidence of a crime.
What is habeas corpus?
The Church sold these to people to grant them entry into heaven.
What are indulgences?
something from the past which is in the present
legacy