Religions
Feudalism
Medieval Culture
Towns and Trade
Medieval Warfare
100
He was a Roman citizen who preached a new religion and was ultimately crucified for challenging the authority of political leaders.
Who is Jesus Christ?
100
It is another term for "vassal" or "lord of the manor."
What is "noble" or "baron?"
100
This term means the entire way of life of a people, including their religion, literature, language, and customs.
What is culture?
100
Masters at their trades often took young workers under their wings and trained them without pay. This is the term for these young workers.
What is "apprentice?"
100
It was the series of wars between European Christians and Turkish Muslims.
What were The Crusades?
200
Jews, Christians, and Muslims all believe in a single God. This is the term meaning "belief in one god."
What is monotheism?
200
One of the leading causes of the decline of feudalism, The Black Plague, is believed to have originated in this country.
What is China (or Mongolia)?
200
Their responsibilities included raising children, making cloth or wool, taking care of the families animals, and harvesting crops.
Who were peasant women?
200
Plows are useful in this economic activity.
What is farming?
200
Vikings were able to make quick, fierce, stealthy raids because of their development of this technology.
What is the longboat?
300
During the Middle Ages, a missionary was a person sent by the Pope to spread this.
What is Christianity?
300
Signed by King John on June 15, 1215, this document hastened the decline of feudalism by limiting the power of the monarch.
What is The Magna Carta?
300
Many of the fruits, grains, cloths, and spices enjoyed by Europeans actually came to Europe as a result of this series of wars.
What are The Crusades?
300
Increased trade and commerce during the later Middle Ages prompted people to begin moving out of rural areas into these.
What are towns and cities?
300
Viking ships were an especially useful weapon in Europe because they could do this.
What is sail on rivers.
400
This group of advisors is right below the Pope on the Church's social pyramid.
What are the Cardinals?
400
People from this group had basically two choices in life, marry young or become a nun.
What is noble women?
400
The flying buttress is a form of this, which allowed Medieval architects to design taller and taller buildings.
What is an arch or buttress?
400
Because people lived so closely together in Medieval towns and cities, this disease was able to spread very quickly, killing off large portions of the population of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa.
What is The Black Plague?
400
One of the beneficial effects of the Crusades was expanded trade between these two religious groups.
Who are the Christians and Muslims?
500
They oversee all the priests in an area.
Who is a bishop?
500
They are between the monarch and the knight on the social triangle of the Middle Ages.
Who is a baron (or noble/or lord)?
500
Unlike peasant women, some women from this class could learn to read, write, or play musical instruments.
What is the noble class?
500
The term for a medieval trade group that protected workers and kept prices stable.
What is a guild?
500
The longbow and the cannon were invented during this long war.
What is The Hundred Years' War?
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