The Medieval World
A system of government in which land is exchanged for loyalty and services.
What is Feudalism?
A statue that is much bigger than life-size.
What is colossus?
A person who migrates to another country to live there permanently.
What is an Immigrant?
A way of supplying water to an area of land to help grow crops and vegetation.
What is Irrigation Systems?
A significant factor that increased wealth in towns and cities.
What is trade?
A person with power and influence who controls land given to them by a king.
What is LORD?
A person who goes from place to place selling small items.
What is a peddler?
What is Discrimination?
The belief in more than one god.
What is Polytheistic?
________ was the dominant religion in medieval Europe, with the _______ Church as a powerful institution.
What is Christianity; Catholic?
A plot of land exchanged for loyalty to a ruler.
What is Fief?
Someone who rents a room in someone's house.
What is boarder?
The state of being excluded from one's native country.
What is exile?
A method of farming where flat areas are created on steep slopes of mountains, which helps control water and prevent soil eroison.
What is Terrace Farming?
The spread of Christianity led to the development of institutions such as ________, which provided education, healthcare, and social services to local communities.
What are monasteries?
A person who receives land from a ruler and in return promises to fight for the ruler. (Sometimes ride horses)
What is Vassal?
Make changes in something, typically a social, political, or economic institution or practice in order to improve it.
What is reform?
The mistreatment of people based on their religious beliefs.
What is Religious Persecution?
A Spanish conqueror.
What is Conquistador?
What do you call people who pay rent to the king for land? Hint: peasants who were not bound to the land like serfs
What is Freemen?
Powerful families that hold fiefs and titles.
What is Nobility?
A newly arrived immigrant and someone who is inexperienced and unfamiliar with the customs and ways of their new country.
What is greenhorn?
A person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.
What is a Refugee?
A messenger of the Inca Empire.
What is Chasqui?
The Church was able to _________ __________ and ________ __________. Therefore, the Church has a lot of influence on medieval society.
What is make laws and collect taxes?