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Who won the Battle of Hastings in 1066?
Who is William the Conqueror?
This term describes the time period roughly from 500–1000 CE after the fall of Rome.
What is the Early Middle Ages?
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?
Most people in the Middle Ages were what class?
Who are peasants or serfs?
Who signed the Magna Carta in 1215?
Who is King John?
A knight’s code of honor, loyalty, and bravery.
What is chivalry?
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?
Why did many peasants and knights join the Crusades?
What is to gain salvation, land, or adventure?
King Henry II’s conflict with this archbishop led to the latter’s death in Canterbury Cathedral
Who is Thomas Becket?
A self-contained farming community on a lord’s estate.
What is a Manor?
Double Points
Draw the order of the Feudal Pyramid from top to bottom.
What is king → nobles → knights → peasants/serfs?
Being expelled from the Church and cut off from the sacraments was known as what?
What is excommunication?
This major trade route connected Europe and Asia.
What is the Silk Road?
The fall of this empire helped begin the Middle Ages.
What is the Fall of the Western Roman Empire?
This famous Venetian traveller wrote about his journeys to Asia and the court of Kublai Khan.
Who is Marco Polo?
A formal document limiting a monarch’s power and protecting nobles’ rights.
What is the Magna Carta?
A noble who pledged loyalty to a lord.
Who is a Vassal?
What did the church use to punish an entire region by suspending religious services?
What is an Interdict?
What was the main reason Europeans went on Crusades?
What is to reclaim Jerusalem and the Holy Land?
Who had control of the judicial system in medieval England?
Who is the King?
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?
What were the two main types of trials in medieval courts?
What are trial by ordeal and trial by battle?
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?
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?