Feudalism
Who was at the bottom of the Feudal System?
Serfs/Peasants
What was infected that rats carrying when they were traveling to Europeans towns?
Infected fleas
What is a Crusade?
A crusade is a Holy War.
What Roman Emperor was the city of Constantinople named after?
Constantine
Charlemagne was crowned Emperor of what Empire?
The Holy Roman Empire?
What Code of honor did Knights at this time follow?
Chivalry
Where the the Bubonic Plague originate?
Gobi Desert/ China
Who were the Christians fighting, and what city did they want to reclaim from their opponents?
Muslims/ Seljuk Turks and the city of Jerusalem
What was the name of the event that resulted in the separation of the Roman Catholic and the Eastern Orthodox branches of Christianity?
The Great Schism.
What was the name of the document that King John was forced to sign by his nobles in England?
The Magna Carta.
What was a manor and what would you typically find on one?
A manor is a piece of land granted to a person by the king or noble.
On a manor you would find a Church, Castle, farm land, and a village for serfs/peasants to stay.
What did doctors wear inside of their Plague masks?
Rose and other nice smelling objects to cover the smell of dead bodies.
How many Crusades were there? Were the considered successful?
4 crusades and they were as a whole considered not successful.
What was the Byzantine Empire's branch of Christianity called?
Eastern Orthodox
What did Magyar warriors launch over walls that could be a first in biological warfare?
When on a Manor, you could find everything you needed. This meant that the manor system was?
Self Sufficient
Other than fleas why did the plague spread so fast?
Global trade. After the Crusades Europe was trading with the rest of the world?
What was the name of the Pope who gave a speech in favor of fighting the Crusades?
Pope Urban the second.
This Emperor created a Codex of Laws, and his wife was a former actress?
Emperor Justinian
What was the name of the leader of the Eastern Orthodox Church?
The Patriarch.
What was the cause of Europeans resorting to the Feudal system?
The fall of the Roman Empire, no strong Central Government?
What did the religious extremes do to themselves during the plague?
Double points if you can remember the name of these people?
Whip themselves through the streets.
Flagellants
What was the result of the Crusades and crusaders going out and seeing the world that was not their home?
Trade started to increase with Europe and the rest of the world.
What two groups of people eventually led to the demise of the Byzantine empire and the fall of Constantinople?
Western Christians during the 4th Crusade
Ottoman Turks
What was the most important organization in the daily life of everyone during the middle ages in Europe at the time?
What was the name of the leader of this organization?
The Roman Catholic Church.
The Pope