The Castle
The primary function of a medieval castle.
What is to defend the land and the people?
The job of a knight.
What is to fight/protect?
Where monks and/or nuns lived.
What is a monastery/nunnery.
The main job of a peasant.
What is baker/goldsmith/blacksmith/tailor etc.
The name of the early medieval castles before stone.
What is Motte and Bailey?
What a knight offered to peasants.
What is land/protection?
One thing a monk or nun did.
What is writing/praying/cooking/gardening.
The place where a peasant lived.
What is a manor?
The place where a craftsman lived.
What is a workshop?
The main gate defending the medieval castle.
What is the portcullus?
The code a knight followed.
What is code of chivalry?
The name of the head monk or nun.
What is the abbot/abbess.
The name of a peasant who was not free.
What is a serf?
The name for a group of craftsmen.
What is a guild?
Attacking a castle by cutting off their supplies.
What is a siege?
The second stage of becoming a knight.
What is a squire.
The system of farming peasants used.
What is three field / open field system?
The first stage of becoming a craftsman.
The most secure room in the castle.
What is the keep?
The first stage of becoming a knight.
The name of the place where monks and nuns ate meals.
What is the refectory?
The name of the crop tax peasants paid to the priest.
What is a tithe?
The second stage of becoming a craftsman.
What is journeyman.