Feudalism
The Church
Culture and Everyday Life
Kings
The Crusades
100
This person was at the top of the social heirarchy in feudal society.
Who is the King?
100
Monks lived in these places.
What are Monasteries?
100
This disease wiped out at least a third of Europe's population in four years, causing widespread panic and the decline of feudalism.
What is the Bubonic Plague?
100
This King was forced to sign the Magna Carta in 1215
Who is King John I?
100
This region was sacred to the Christians because Jesus had lived and taught there
What is the Holy Land
200
These people were tied to the land so when a manor was sold to a new lord, the people were sold as well
Who were serfs?
200
These people supervised several priests
Who are bishops?
200
These were some of the most educated people in medieval society because they copied ancient books.
Who are monks?
200
This Kind left England to fight in the Crusades and was able to draft a treaty with Saladin allowing the Christian pilgrims back into the Holy Land.
Who is Richard the Lionheart, or Richard I?
200
In the 1000's this group took over the Holy Land a barred Christian Pilgrims from entering.
Who are the Seljuk Turks
300
These people followed a code based on courage, respect, and and loyalty?
Who were Knights?
300
This Pope was asked by the Byzantine Emperor to send soldiers to take back the Holy Land.
Who was Pope Urban II?
300
These were formed by merchants, traders, and craft workers in cities so they could set prices and prevent outsiders from selling goods in their town.
What were guilds?
300
This person became the King of France and conquered many small kingdoms to create an empire that only lasted 50 years.
Who is Charlemagne, or Charles the Great?
300
This person gathered an army of common people to try to get back the Holy Land before soldiers could arrive.
Who is Peter the Hermit
400
Even though these people were below the king, at times they had more power because they had more land.
Who are the nobles?
400
If you did not obey the church, then they could threaten you with this.
What is excommunication?
400
These people were traveling poets and musicians that often sang or told of romance and chivalry.
Who were troubadors?
400
This King of England started a war with France because he believed that he was their rightful king, but the nobles did not feel the same way.
Who was Edward III?
400
The Europeans learned how to make better _________ and ____________ from the Muslims that would later help them to become worldwide explorers.
What are ships and maps?
500
If a serf could escape for this long to a city they would be free.
What is a year and a day?
500
This system used reason to support Christian beliefs, not just blind faith.
What is scholasticism?
500
Short and hard lives with a lot of suffering for peasants led to this.
What is blind faith in the church or religion?
500
Although not King, this organization had almost as much power and influence.
What is the Church?
500
The Crusades helped revive this which helped town and cities grow.
What is trade?
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