Feudalism & Manor
These fearsome Norse invaders helped cause the rise of feudalism.
What are the Vikings?
This alliance of northern European cities promoted trade.
What is the Hanseatic League?
This term described kings appointing church officials.
What is lay investiture?
He called for the First Crusade in 1095.
Who is Pope Urban II?
This architectural innovation allowed for stained glass windows in Gothic cathedrals.
What are flying buttresses?
A grant of land given to a vassal was known as this.
What is a fief?
This economic system gradually replaced bartering.
What is a money economy?
This set of guidelines structured prayer and labor in monasteries.
What is the Benedictine Rule?
This was the main goal of the Crusades.
What is to reclaim the Holy Land?
This was considered the most important subject at medieval universities.
What is theology?
This heavy plow improved medieval farming.
What is the carruca?
These organizations controlled trade and set quality standards.
What are guilds?
This church court was created to root out and punish heresy.
What is the Inquisition?
This Muslim leader recaptured Jerusalem in 1187.
Who is Saladin?
This author wrote The Canterbury Tales.
Who is Geoffrey Chaucer?
This code of conduct guided the actions of knights.
What is chivalry?
This deadly disease killed about one-third of Europe’s population.
What is the Black Death?
This Englishman translated the Bible into the vernacular.
Who is John Wyclif?
This Crusade in 1204 sacked Constantinople.
What is the Fourth Crusade?
The Song of Roland is an example of this type of medieval literature.
What is a chanson de geste?
This powerful woman married two kings and had royal children.
Who is Eleanor of Aquitaine?
How did plague affect serfdom?
What is weakened serfdom and higher wages?
This event led to the existence of rival popes in the Church.
What is the Great Schism?
In this ill-fated Crusade, many young participants drowned or were enslaved.
What is the Children’s Crusade?
This thinker united faith and reason in the philosophy of scholasticism.
Who is Thomas Aquinas?