People
Who won the Battle of Hastings in 1066?
Who is William the Conqueror?
A knight’s code of honor, loyalty, and bravery.
What is chivalry?
The system that exchanged land for loyalty and military service.
What is the feudal system?
The religious officials in medieval society were called what?
What is the Clergy?
What were the Crusades?
What are a series of religious wars to take back the Holy Land from Muslim control?
Name one major power of the medieval monarchy.
What is collecting taxes, declaring war, or enforcing laws?
Who signed the Magna Carta in 1215?
Who is King John?
A self-contained farming community on a lord’s estate.
What is a Manor?
The three “F’s” of the feudal system stood for what?
What is Fife, Fealty and Faith?
Giving 10% of one’s income to the church was known as what?
What is a Tithe?
When did the Crusades begin, and how long did they last?
What is they began in 1096 and lasted nearly 200 years?
Most people in the Middle Ages were what class?
Who are peasants or serfs?
King Henry II’s conflict with this archbishop led to the latter’s death in Canterbury Cathedral
Who is Thomas Becket?
A formal document limiting a monarch’s power and protecting nobles’ rights.
What is the Magna Carta?
Double Points
Draw the order of the Feudal Pyramid from top to bottom.
What is king → nobles → knights → peasants/serfs?
Why did the Church have so much power in the Middle Ages?
What is because it controlled education, land, and people’s path to salvation?
What was the main reason Europeans went on Crusades?
What is to reclaim Jerusalem and the Holy Land?
Why did many peasants and knights join the Crusades?
What is to gain salvation, land, or adventure?
Which pope called for the First Crusade?
Who is Pope Urban II?
Land given to a vassal by a lord was called a what?
What is a Fief?
In the feudal system, peasants gave labor and food to lords in exchange for what?
What is protection and land to live on?
Being expelled from the Church and cut off from the sacraments was known as what?
What is excommunication?
What was one major outcome of the Crusades for Europe?
What is increased trade and contact with the Middle East?
Who had control of the judicial system in medieval England?
Who is the King?
Who was Eleanor of Aquitaine, and why was she influential?
She was a powerful noblewoman and queen of both France and England who promoted culture and politics.
This term describes the time period roughly from 500–1000 CE after the fall of Rome.
What is the Early Middle Ages?
What were the two main types of trials in medieval courts?
What are trial by ordeal and trial by battle?
What did the church use to punish an entire region by suspending religious services?
What is an Interdict?
Name two long-term consequences of the Crusades.
What are weakened feudalism, growth of towns, and new ideas and technologies from the East?
Which English king led forces during the Third Crusade?
Who is Richard the Lionheart?