Medieval Knights
Term for a boy, 6 or 7 years old, that has left home to gain skills in horse riding and archery, and learn to read & write.
What is a Page?
This group vowed to provide the king with soldiers when needed in exchange for fiefs.
Who are the Nobles?
People who bought goods and sold them to the public.
What are Merchants?
Narrow slits through which arrows could be fired from the inside without exposing the archer.
What are Arrow Loops?
The political and spiritual leader of the Roman Catholic Church.
Who is the Pope?
A Medieval competition between two knights on horseback. The challenge is to knock the other knight off his horse.
What is jousting?
Low ranking noble or knight who promised to support a lord in exchange for land.
Who is a vassal?
This individual worked for a master who taught him a trade and gave them food, shelter, and clothes.
What is an Apprentice?
Most important room in the castle, used for meeting and dining.
What is the Great Hall?
Community where monks lived, prayed, worshipped, and studied Christianity.
What is a Monastery?
At the age of 14 or 15, a page is assigned to a particular knight who continues his instruction. He helps the knight don his armor and cares for the horses.
What is a Squire?
Political system in which land was exchanged for military protection. The Nobles could keep their land and power.
What is Feudalism?
Regulated Medieval trades-the work, wages, and prices.
What were Guilds?
Small latrine or toilet inside a castle.
What is a Garderobe?
A serious crime that involves having ideas that conflict with Church teachings.
What is Heresy?
Armor that is made of thousands of small metal rings riveted together to form a mesh.
What is Chain Mail?
The term that the Nobles called the lowly peasants.
What are the Simples?
Workers who could prove they could do a job at the end of the time they trained under the Master.
Who were the Journeymen?
Hidden holes above a castle's door though which boiling hot liquids could be dumped , or rocks hurled down on invaders.
What are Murder Holes?
Catholic worship services that Medieval Europeans attended on Sunday and Holy Days.
What is Mass?
Another term for the Dubbing Ceremony where a squire is given the title of knight.
What is Accolade?
This unfair act sparked the Peasants Revolt of 1381.
What is a poll tax?
Main place of worship holding the Bishops's throne that could take up to 100 years to complete.
What was a Cathedral?
Approximately how long did it take for King Edward's castles to be built?
What is less than a decade?
This act suspends a person's rights within the Church community, they are cut off from the Church and shunned by other Believers.
What is Excommunicated?