The highest person in the pyramid of power in the feudal system
What is the king or queen?
100
This group of people ate mostly meat that was hunted like deer, rabbit, boar, and fish
What is the royalty or noble class?
100
Another name for Medieval Times?
What is the Middle Ages or the Dark Ages?
100
The definition of perseverance
What is steadfastness in doing something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success?
200
An inner building where the families slept and ate
What is the keep?
200
A person who lived off the land, worked for the lord of the manor and had very little rights
What is a serf?
200
Serfs or peasants ate this of soup or stew often
What is pottage?
200
This weapon could throw a rock or other objects against or even over the castle walls
What is a catapult?
200
This disease spread throughout Europe during the Middle Ages killing millions of people
What is the Black Plague or the Black Death?
300
How an arrow loop was used
What is a cross shaped hole in the wall of the castle where archers could fire their bows and arrows without risk of being attacked
300
A knight promised this to the king or lord
What is to protect the people from enemies?
300
Ale or wine was consumed by everyone because of this problem
What is the water was not clean enough to drink?
300
This was the name of a bathroom or a small wardrobe in Medieval Times
What is a garderobe?
300
Many kings made the people pay these for lots of ridiculous reasons
What are taxes?
400
The iron gate at the entrance to the castle that could be raised and lowered and had sharp points on the end that could cause injury to enemies
What is portcullis?
400
When a boy wanted to become a knight, he first had this job
What is a page?
400
This cup was used by the royalty and was usually decorated with jewels
What is a goblet?
400
These group of people often attacked monasteries during Medieval Times and helped develop better castles
Who are the Normans or the Vikings?
400
This document, signed by King John, stated the rights of the nobles and what they could do to the King if he violated those rights
What is the Magna Carta?
500
A castle that was built on a hill and had a wooden fence for an outer wall
What is a Motte and Bailey castle?
500
The code that Knights lived by
What is the Code of Chivalry?
500
This group's diet was probably healthier because they ate more vegetables and less meat
What is the peasants or serf?
500
The living conditions inside a castle
What is hot in summer and cold and drafty in the winter, very few windows, dirty and stuffy. People often slept on the ground on hay and all ate together in the Great Hall
500
These military campaigns, which took place in the Holy Lands, kept Medieval men at war over religion