Christianity
The two main branches of Christianity, which split in the Great Schism.
The word for a follower of the Islamic faith.
A person who receives land from a lord.
What is a vassal?
A sore filled with blood and pus caused by some strains of the plague.
What is a bubo?
A style of art created during the Black Death.
What is danse macabre?
The head of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Who is the Patriarch?
The holy city of Islam, where the Prophet Muhammad established a gathering point for Muslims.
What is Mecca?
A grant of land received by a vassal in exchange for oaths of fealty and military service.
What is a fief?
The bacteria, carried by fleas on rats, that spread the bubonic plague.
What is Yersinia pestis?
The head of the Norse pantheon of gods, who Wednesday is named after.
Who is Odin? (Woden)
The largest cathedral in the world, for a time, which started as a Greek Orthodox church and became a Muslim mosque.
Towers that stand in each corner of a mosque, used to spread sound for the call to prayer.
What are minarets?
These invaders caused Europeans to fear traveling long distances, limiting trade and travel. (There are 3.)
Who are the Vikings, the Muslims, and the Magyars?
A strain of plague characterized by slimy and bloody sputum (hemoptysis), which can be airborne.
What is pulmonic plague?
The Muslim invaders that caused the fall of Constantinople in 1453.
Who is the Ottoman Empire (Seljuk Turks)?
The Roman emperor who moved the capitol of the empire to Byzantium (Constantinople) and converted to Christianity.
Who is Emperor Constantine?
Muslim scholar who put all knowledge except the Quran to the test of reason. His writings on Aristotle were translated into Latin and influenced Christian scholastics in medieval Europe.
Who is Ibn Rushd?
As a result of successful innovations in shipbuilding and profits from pillaging the British Isles, this Viking managed to sail to the Americas.
Who is Leif Erikson?
What is septicemic plague?
The guy who briefly created an empire in Europe after the fall of Rome, but it didn't hold up long.
Who is Charlemagne?
The Emperor of the Byzantine Empire and his wife, who both brought on the empire's "Golden Age".
Who are Justinian and Theodora?
A Muslim scholar and an astronomer best known for The Rubáiyát, which meditates on fate and the fleeting nature of life.
Who is Omar Khayyám?
A type of peasant laborer who has some rights, but is limited to living and working on the land they are born onto.
What is a serf?
People who beat or otherwise hurt themselves to try to get God’s forgiveness.
What are flagellants?
A sixteen-year-old peasant girl who took control of the French army on directions she said were given from God.
Who is Jeanne d'Arc (Joan of Arc)?