The Manor
The bottom class of people in Medieval Times, comprised 90% of the population.
What are the serfs?
The person who will inherit land and/or title.
What is an heir?
A charitable donation made to the church in exchange for the forgiveness of a sin.
What is an indulgence?
The person who created tools and metal objects in the manor.
Who is the blacksmith?
This famous disease wiped out 30-50% of Europe's population.
What is the Black Plague?
The manor must be able to operate independently, in other words it was _____ ________.
What is self sufficient?
A person to whom the king has granted a piece of land.
What is a vassal of the king?
The monk who critiqued the church and launched the Protestant Reformation.
Who was Martin Luther?
What peasants made their clothes from (three things).
What is leather, wool and linen?
This seemingly unending fight began when an English King claimed to be the rightful king of France.
What is the Hundred Years War?
The piece of land given to a lord was called a _____.
What is a fief?
A person lower than a baron, but higher than a serf, who's role is to protect the manor and the lord.
What is a knight?
The only thing needed to enter heaven, this Latin phrase was at the center of Luther's teachings
What is sola fide?
The workshop that could be used to grind wheat into flour.
What was the mill?
A series of religious wars, primarily between 1096 and 1291 by European Christians to reclaim the Holy Land from Muslim control
What is the crusades?
When the lord was away, this high ranking woman could fill in for him.
This relation to the king was always heir to the throne in the Middle Ages.
What is the first born son?
What is the bishop?
The worker who broke rocks into bricks.
What is a stone mason?
In 1378, two popes claimed to be the true vicar of Christ, sparking this crisis of legitimacy.
What is the Great Schism?
A word for land that is resting between plantings.
What is fallow land?
This English document established that kings must obey the rule of law like everyone else and provided rights to nobles.
What is the Magna Carta?
Different from a church, nobles often sent their second and third born boys here to study theology.
What is a cathedral?
The person on the manor in charge of making sure serfs were working.
Who is the bailiff?
While most people think of rodents, these tiny creatures actually were responsible for spreading the plague.
What are fleas?