THE MIDDLE AGES
VOCABULARY
MANORIALISM
CRUSADES
BLACK PLAGUE
100
FEUDALISM BEGAN IN EUROPE WHEN THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT BECAME WEAK DURING THE FALL OF THIS EMPIRE.
What is ROME?
100

IN FEUDAL SOCIETY, SOCIAL STATUS WAS USUALLY DETERMINED BY THIS

What is BIRTH or YOUR FAMILY'S STATUS?

100

THE GROUP THAT WAS PRIMARILY RESPONSIBLE FOR FARMING THE FIELDS AND PROVIDING THE MANOR WITH FOOD.

Who are SERFS or PEASANTS?

100

THE FAMOUS KING WHO WAS KILLED DURING THE CRUSADES AND LEFT HIS BROTHER JOHN TO TAKE HIS PLACE.

Who is KING RICHARD the LIONHEART?

100

THE BLACK PLAGUE ORIGINATED ON THIS CONTINENT.

What is ASIA?

200
WHAT WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT FORCE IN WESTERN EUROPE THAT PROVIDED UNITY AND STABILITY DURING THE MIDDLE AGES?
What is THE CATHOLIC CHURCH?
200
A WARRIOR ON HORSEBACK
What is a KNIGHT?
200
WE KNOW THAT RELIGION PLAYED AN IMPORTANT ROLE ON THE MANOR BECAUSE THIS STRUCTURE WAS OFTEN THE LARGEST BUILDING.
What is THE CHURCH?
200
ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT EFFECTS OF THE CRUSADES WAS THE INCREASE OF ____________ BETWEEN EUROPE AND ASIA
What is TRADE
200

The name for the swollen, painful, blackening bumps caused by the Black Plague.

What are BUBOES?

300
DURING THE MIDDLE AGES, THESE WERE CREATED TO ESTABLISH A STANDARD SIZE AND PRICE FOR GOODS AND SERVICES
What is A GUILD?
300

POLITICAL SYSTEM DESIGNED TO MEET THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE WHEN THE GOVERNMENT WAS WEAK AND INEFFECTIVE, EVERYONE HAD A ROLE TO PLAY.

What is FEUDALISM?

300

THE LORD OF THE MANOR WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR COLLECTING THESE FROM THE VILLAGERS, AS WELL AS PROVIDING KNIGHTS FOR THE KING. 

What is TAXES?

300
Why were the Crusades fought?
What is Christians wanted to regain the Holy Lands.
300
THE BLACK PLAGUE IS BELIEVED TO HAVE TRAVELED TO EUROPE VIA THIS TRADE ROUTE THAT CONNECTS ASIA TO EUROPE.
What is THE SILK ROAD?
400

GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE, LIKE IN CASTLES IN CHURCHES, USED FLYING BUTTRESSES AND THESE TYPES OF WINDOWS.

What is STAINED GLASS?

400
THE LARGE ESTATE THAT CONTAINED THE LORD'S FIELDS, CASTLE, CHURCH, SERF'S HUTS, MILLS AND FORESTS.
What is MANOR?
400
THE TERM THAT DESCRIBES A MANOR THAT PRODUCES EVERYTHING PEOPLE NEED TO SURVIVE.
What is SELF-SUFFICIENT?
400
THE CRUSADES IS KNOWN AS HISTORY'S MOST SUCCESSFUL FAILURE. WHAT WAS THE FAILURE?
What is THE CHRISTIANS NEVER GAINED PERMANENT CONTROL OF THE HOLY LAND (JERUSALEM)
400

NAME THE ANIMAL KNOWN FOR CARRYING THE BLACK PLAGUE

What is THE RAT or THE FLEA?

500
MORAL CODE OF CONDUCT THAT EUROPEAN KNIGHTS FOLLOWED
What is CHIVALRY?
500
THE TAX COLLECTED BY THE CHURCH
What is TITHE?
500

A PLEDGE OF LOYALTY GIVEN IN EXCHANGE FOR LAND OR PROTECTION. 

What is FEALTY?

500

THE CRUSADES WERE A SERIES OF HOLY WARS BETWEEN THESE TWO GROUPS OF PEOPLE.

Who were THE CHRISTIANS AND THE MUSLIMS?

500

THE NAME OF THE TYPE OF BACTERIA RESPONSIBLE FOR THE BUBONIC PLAGUE.

What is YERSINIA PESTIS?

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