The Feudal System
The name of the piece of land granted by a lord to a vassal
What is a Fief?)
The code of conduct that governed the behavior of knights
What is Chivalry?)
The head of the Roman Catholic Church
The head of the Roman Catholic Church
The King of the Franks who was crowned Emperor of the Romans in 800 AD.
Who is Charlemagne?
his pandemic killed roughly one-third of Europe's population in the 14th century.
hat is the Black Death / Bubonic Plague?
This social class made up the majority of the population and was tied to the land they worked.
Who are Serfs?)
The first stage of training for a young boy hoping to become a knight
What is a Page?
To be formally kicked out of the Church and denied the sacrament
What is Excommunication?)
he teenage peasant girl who led French armies against the English before being burned at the stake
Who is Joan of Arc
The conflict between England and France that actually lasted 116 years
What is the Hundred Years' War
The economic system centered around the lord's estate, which was largely self-sufficient.
What is Manorialism
A series of religious wars launched by European Christians to retake the Holy Land.
A series of religious wars launched by European Christians to retake the Holy Land.
This architectural style featured pointed arches, ribbed vaults, and flying buttresses
What is Gothic?)
he Viking leader (Duke of Normandy) who conquered England in 1066
Who is William the Conqueror?)
his city, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453
What is Constantinople?
The ceremony where a vassal pledged loyalty to his lord
What is Homage?)
This heavy siege engine used a counterweight to hurl massive stones at castle walls.
What is a Trebuchet
he religious court established to find and punish heretics
What is the Inquisition?)
The Muslim leader who recaptured Jerusalem and was respected by his enemy, Richard the Lionhear
Who is Saladin
he invention by Johannes Gutenberg that ended the era of hand-copied books
What is the Printing Press?)
his 1215 document limited the power of the English King for the first time
What is the Magna Carta
This 1415 battle saw English longbowmen defeat a much larger force of French knights.
What is the Battle of Agincourt
The Great Schism of 1054 split the Christian church into these two main branche
What are the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches
The Italian traveler who spent 17 years in the court of Kublai Khan
Who is Marco Polo?)
Reconquista" was the centuries-long effort to drive the Moors out of this peninsula.
What is the Iberian Peninsula?