Feudalism
Group/person at the top of the Feudal pyramid.
Who is a King?
These were armed pilgrimages by Christians to take the Holy Land.
What are the Crusades?
This European kingdom is responsible for the Doomsday Book (census) and the Magna Carta (check on royal power).
What is England?
What is Black Plague, Bubonic Plague, the Plague, Yersinia Pestis?
Knights were a class on the Feudal pyramid. They followed this code.
What is chivalry?
This class was described as "elite mounted warriors".
Who are knights?
This was a time period of investigating and prosecuting heretics.
What is the Inquisition?
This European kingdom was founded by the Normans.
What is England?
This climate pattern brought colder and wetter climate to Europe for a few hundred years.
What is the Little Ice Age?
The language that was used for scholarly and religious purposes.
What is Latin?
Group second from the top of the Feudal pyramid, in charge of land distribution.
Who are Lords?
This was the only successful Crusade.
What is the First?
This European kingdom was made up of lands that were left over after the fall of Rome, and was also comprised of dozens of semi-independent kingdoms. It failed to become a national monarchy.
What is The Holy Roman Empire?
The Black Death led to a rise in this as people looked for the cause and explanation for the disease.
What is anti-semitism?
The importance of the "everyday spoken language" increased across Europe in the Middle Ages, the word for that is this...
What is vernacular?
Feudalism was a social hierarchy from the Middle Ages in Europe, it worked on paper since every group benefitted. It was a society based on __________.
What are transactions? (Give/take)
The Crusades aimed to take back the Holy Land from this group.
Who are Muslims?
This European kingdom used to be the western section of the fallen Carolingian Empire. They were successful in creating a national monarchy.
What is France?
Who are serfs?
*DAILY DOUBLE* (Wager points) The word for the philosophical & theological approach to learning that tried to restore faith & reason in Europe.
What is scholasticism?
The biggest difference between a peasant and a serf, a serf is _______.
What is "bound to the land"?
The word for dedicating one's life to a religion by becoming a monk or nun.
What is monasticism?
These two European kingdoms were made up of Slavs who migrated to central/eastern Europe during the middle ages. These kingdoms both are modern countries today. (Two answers, just need one. Either former or modern name)
What is the Kingdom of Bohemia (Czech) and Poland (Poles)?
The Black Death killed AT LEAST this percentage of the European population between 1347-1351.
What is 33%?
The Middle Ages saw the birth of the first university in the world. It was founded in Bologna in 1088 which is in this country.
What is Italy?