Feudalism
Parcels of land given to a lord by the king.
What is a fief
The Crusades were fought mainly over this city.
What is Jerusalem?
The scientific name for the Black Death.
What is the bubonic plague?
Vikings were a seafaring people from this region of Northern Europe.
What is Scandinavia?
This event started the Middle Ages.
What is the fall of the Roman Empire?
This is what knights give to the lord in exchange for land.
What is protection or military service.
This crusade, led by Richard the Lionheart and others, is also called the 3rd Crusade.
What is the King's Crusade?
These swollen lymph nodes turned black as the plague progressed.
What are buboes?
Erik the Red settled this massive, icy island between Europe and North America.
What is Greenland?
This was the largest of the Germanic tribes.
Who are the Franks?
The code of conduct that knights are sworn to uphold.
What is chivalry?
The number of crusades fought, including the Children's Crusade.
What is 9?
The Plague was most likely spread to Europe by these pests that hitched a ride on rats.
What are fleas?
The place where Vikings celebrated victories and conducted business.
What is a Viking hall?
This grandson of Charles "The Hammer" Martel cemented Catholicism in Europe.
Who is Charlemagne?
The Japanese equivalent of a knight.
What is a Samurai?
The Crusade that was later described as "ankle deep in blood." Also the only Crusade won by the Christians.
What is the 1st Crusade?
These people were sometimes wrongfully blamed for the plague by saying they were poisoning the drinking water.
Who are Jews?
The most important Viking possession that allowed them to travel great distances.
What is a longship?
This word means denying the teachings of the church.
What is heresy?
The person that actually held all of the power in feudal Japan.
Who was the Shogun?
The leader of the Muslim Turks who signed a peace treaty with King Richard the 1st.
Who is Saladin?
Approximately this percentage of Europeans were killed by the Black Death.
What is 1/3 or 30%?
This object had Viking histories written on it.
What is a runestone?
This important document limited the power of the king.
What is the Magna Carta?