Lesson 1
Describe the climate in Europe
Answers will vary.
Became the center of economic activity during the Middle Ages.
What lands held by nobles? (manors)
Landholders in Japan and Europe were called:
What are daimyo and lords?
A type of Japanese poem.
What is a haiku?
The smallest planet in the Solar System is...
What is Mercury?
This group of people occupied Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire.
Who are the Germanic peoples?
This strategy of attack aimed to slowly starve the people inside a castle and force them to surrender.
What is a siege?
The codes of conduct that samurai and knights followed.
What is bushido and chivalry?
A powerful noble that owned land in medieval Europe.
Who is a lord?
This is the tallest mountain on Earth.
What is Mount Everest?
These two things declined during the Middle Ages.
What are learning and trade?
People with the same job formed these groups.
What are guilds?
Beowulf is an example of this.
What is an epic poem?
Places that religious followers practiced a life of prayer.
What are monasteries?
This author wrote such books as The BFG, James and the Giant Peach, and The Witches
Who is Roald Dahl?
Who is Charlemagne?
Describe a medieval town
What is dirty, cramped, and busy?
How were the feudal systems in Europe and Japan different?
Roles of women, religion, literature
Frankish leader that invaded Gaul in 486.
Who is Clovis?
This person is responsible for creating characters such as Spiderman, Iron Man, and the Hulk.
List the social classes in the Feudal structure.
1. King
2. Church Officials and Nobles
3. Knights
4. Peasants (serfs)
What shaped the economy in feudal Europe?
What is a persons occupation (Baker, Smith, etc.)
The term Middle Ages is derived from these two Latin words.
What are medium and aevum?
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is a fear of this.
What is long words?