Vikings
Money given to Viking raiders from European leaders to stop raids.
What is danegald?
A war between England and France that brought the Feudal system to England.
What is the Battle of Hastings?
What is the study of family history based on symbols and colours?
A government where few, powerful families are in control.
What is an oligarchy?
Martin Luther's list of disagreements with the Catholic Church.
What is the 95 Theses?
The two reasons Viking leaders began raiding Europe.
What are for land and resources?
A word for an unplanted field.
What is fallow?
Define buboes.
What are swellings of the lymph glands that turned black and gave the Black Death its name?
A government where citizens vote for representatives.
What is a Republic?
The explorer that North and South America was named after.
Who was Amerigo Vespucci?
Things that could happen to a Viking outlaw.
What are land and gold being taken, and being killed on sight?
Two knights fighting to the death and placing your hand in boiling oil are examples of these.
What is trial by battle and trial by ordeal?
The three stages of becoming a knight.
What is a page (age 7-8), squire (age 14-15), knight (dubbed in religious ceremony at 21).
These people were hired to fight wars for money, and didn't care about the outcome of the war.
What are it took control away from the Church, allowed more people to read and write, and spread ideas and knowledge across Europe more quickly?
List four Viking women's rights.
What are vote, own land, divorce their spouse, and sue in court?
What is handle minor offences (related to farming), treason or serious crimes (murder), or crimes committed by church officials?
Reasons for the Peasants' Revolt.
What are Poll Tax (same amount of tax for everyone), and trying to return peasant wages to pre-Plague levels.
Describe sumptuary laws.
What are laws that were created to control the growing middle class. Rules about what types of clothing (cloth) certain classes could wear, or what number of courses you could serve at a dinner?
The three "G's" of European exploration.
What are Gold, God and Glory?
The names of Viking poets and Viking slaves.
What are skalds and thralls?
All of the levels of the feudal pyramid.
What is Monarch, Greater Nobles (Barons), Lesser Nobles, Minor Nobles, Commoners (freeholders and serfs.)
Four reasons that the 100 Years' War lasted so long.
The reasons that the Renaissance started in Italy first. (4)
What are connections to the Holy Roman Empire (law, buildings, art, architecture), Mild climate (travel and trade all year round), Geography (mountainous, few but popular trade routes), Surrounded by water (trade), Ties to Middle East (travel, ideas, art, math.)
At least three effects of European exploration on indigenous peoples around the world.
Death (disease and murder).
Slavery (put under European control).
Loss of land (colonies set up).
Loss of culture (temples, language and monuments lost.)