Historical Periodization & Geography
Early, High, and Late Middle Ages
What are the phases of the Medieval period?
In the feudal system, this term describes a self-sufficient estate managed by a lord and worked by serfs and peasants.
What is a manor?
These associations of merchants/craftsmen became a significant source of employment for workers in cities with widespread membership.
What are guilds?
These religious communities dedicated to prayer and service, often located in remote areas, housed monks or nuns who played significant roles in preserving ancient texts and knowledge.
What are monasteries?
Boys from these households were sent to another household to be trained in military skills.
What is aristocratic?
This type of map depicted Jerusalem at the center of the world and showed the relative location of Europe, Asia, & Africa.
What is a T/O map?
The court in which the knights and nobles held authority over people.
What is the manorial court?
An unfree peasant tied to a particular fief on a hereditary basis.
Who is a serf?
A religious body of priests serving in towns and villages
Who are the clergy?
Children began to ____ at age seven or older.
What is work?
The water routes that the Scandinavian sailors, traders, and settlers explored after the 9th century, allowing them to travel between the Baltic and Black Seas.
What are the Western Russian River systems?
This shaped the knights warlike tendencies into a code chivalry.
What is the Church?
In this system, two or three huge huge fields were divided into strips with each peasant family farming several strips scattered around the fields.
What was the open-field system?
Jews were expelled from these three kingdoms between 1290-1492.
What are England, France, and Spain?
Young peasant boys who belonged to wealthy families who could afford to send them to school would begin attending at this age.
What is seven?
A mountain range that served as a natural barrier between Europe and Asia.
What are the Ural Mountains?
This British king, in 886, successfully fought against the Vikings.
Who was Alfred the Great?
Free peasants who paid rent and farmed but otherwise had no set obligations to anyone.
Who are yeomen?
At a certain point the clergy could no longer marry or have children so as to devote themselves fully to God.
When is the 11th century?
These people did household chores and fieldwork and could inherit business ownership and manage land holdings.
Who are women?
The 1st Crusade begin in this year.
When is 1096?
This term describes the land granted to a vassal in exchange for loyalty.
What is a fief?
Schools, attached initially to cathedrals, were later maintained by ____or town councils.
What are guilds?
A curriculum of grammar, rhetoric, and logic that was taught to boys who were intended for a career in the Church.
What is the trivium?
Medieval writers ____ and _____ portrayed medieval women as assertive and powerful despite them being legally subject to men.
Who are Boccaccio and Chaucer?