The city of Rome is located in this modern day country
What is Italy?
This event marks the beginning of the period in Europe known as the Middle Ages.
What is the fall of Rome?
A peasant who could not leave the lord's land on which he or she was born and worked.
What is a serf?
England and France fought in this war.
What is the Hundred Years' War?
He issued a decree allowing Christians to practice their religion freely.
Who is Constantine?
What is Latin?
These are the three periods of the Middle Ages.
What are the Early, High, and Late Middle Ages?
It was a system that provided people with protection and safety by establishing a stable social order.
What is feudalism?
It is a deadly contagious disease caused by bacteria and spread by fleas.
What is the bubonic plague? (black death also acceptable)
It is a Christian religion that developed out of early Christianity in the Byzantine Empire.
What is the Eastern Orthodox Church?
They weakened the frontiers of Ancient Rome and attacked the empire.
Who are the Barbarians?
He was the leader of the Franks.
Who is Charlemagne?
What is chivalry?
It is a written legal agreement signed in 1215 that limited the English monarch's power.
What is the Magna Carta?
He developed a code of laws that remains influential today.
Who is Justinian?
What is Pax Romana?
It was the center of community life in medieval western Europe.
What is the church?
They swear loyalty to the monarch in exchange for land.
What is a lord?
Her act of heroism changed the way many French people felt about their king and nation.
Who is Joan of Arc?
It is surrounded by water on three sides and is at the crossroads of Europe and Asia.
What is Constantinople?
Romans learned how to use these architectural features to build huge structures.
What are the dome, vault, and arch?
This describes what Europe was like after the fall of Rome.
(Several responses acceptable)
What is dangerous, difficult, disordered, without a central government, etc?
Land granted by a lord to a vassal in exchange for loyalty and service.
What is a fief?
The English used this weapon in the Hundred Years' War.
What is the longbow?
Constantinople was called this before Constantine renamed it.
What is Byzantium?