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This is another name for the Early Middle Ages, which took place between 476 CE to 1000 CE.
What are the Dark Ages?
These were overall unsuccessful from 1095 CE to 1291 CE.
What were the Crusades?
In 1315, this was a food shortage that made it expensive to hire workers during the Late Middle Ages.
What is the Great Famine?
This is a governmental system that was developed in the ninth century and continued throughout the fifteenth century because those who lived in Western Europe needed protection from those who took over the lands.
What is feudalism?
King Alfred loved to read and memorize these as a child.
What are poems?
This king ruled from 768 CE to 814 CE and his son of tha same name took the throne after his death.
Who is King Charlemagne?
In 1212, boys and girls either died from starvation or were sold into slavery on the way to the Holy Land under these dire circumstances.
What are the Children's Crusades?
In 1347, this came to Europe from Asia as a result of fleas on rats and the Americas were spared from this disease that killed about half of those who lived in the North Central Hemisphere.
What is the Bubonic Plague?
This is a landed estate in which most of the work and life took place during the Middle Ages.
What is a manor?
This was invented in 1444.
What is the printing press?
This king ruled from 871 CE to 899 CE and he was able to make peace with the Vikings.
Who is King Alfred the Great?
In the middle 11th Century, this involved the splitting of the Catholic Church.
What is the Great Schism of 1054?
This war lasted for 116 years and Joan of Arc was killed in it at the age of 19.
What is the Hundred Years' War?
This is a mounted soldier who fought during the Middle Ages.
What is a knight?
This art medium was invented in 1270.
What is paper?
This emperor ruled from 527 CE and 565 CE.
Who is Emperor Justinian?
In 1066, this ruler invaded England and he built the Tower of London.
Who is King William of Normandy?
In 1381, this took place because people who worked in agriculture wanted the freedom to live and work where they wanted to.
What is the Peasants' Revolt?
This is a small-scale agricultural worker who was very poor during the Middle Ages.
What is a peasant?
This was invented in 1450.
What is the First Alphabet?
This king was crowned in 962 CE.
Who was King Otto?
In 1135, this began to lose its territory.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
In 1453, this fell and its capital Constantinople was renamed Istanbul in the Asian part of Turkey.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
These are people who prayed during the Middle Ages.
Who are Clergy?
King Charlemagne wanted his offspring to have this during the Early Middle Ages.
What is Education?