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What was Thomas Becket's title?
Archbishop of Canterbury
martyr
True or False: the Medieval Age was from 1603 - 1981
False
True or False - The Black Death arrived in England in the winter of 1348
False - summer of 1348
True or False - The Black Death first struck in Europe in 1346
False - struck in Asia in 1346
What do you call a person who worships not a single god but an idol or idols instead?
Idolator
"Will no one rid me of this troublesome priest?"
True or False: Thomas Becket died in a field at the hands of the knights.
False - he died in his own cathedral
True or False: Khanbaliq had a problem attracting visitors.
False - Khanbaliq attracted visitors from all over Asia.
What did villagers in the year 1000 use as toilet paper?
Moss
What was the life expectancy of people living in the year 1000?
40 years.
Did people from the year 1000 have buttons on their clothes?
Nope. Hadn't been invented yet.
The most important part of Catholic church service where the priest blesses the bread and wine and offers them to God.
Mass
The place between heaven and hell where everyone has to go first, according to the church in medieval times.
purgatory
What do you call part of saint, like a bone or a lock of hair?
relic
What do you call a long journey that people go on for their religion / faith?
pilgrimage
True or False: 1 in 3 people died of the black death in England?
True
Was it possible to recover from the Black Death?
yup. but most people who caught it died.
England was divided into areas known as .... ?
parish
What's the modern word for 'privy'
toilet
Over which trading route did the Black Death spread?
The Silk Road
What are two things do flagellants do?
whip themselves and sing hymns
What is the city of Khanbaliq known as today?
Beijing
What do you call someone specially trained to uncover ruins of old buildings and towns?
Archaeologist
How do archaeologists work out the size and shape of buildings?
The post-holes