Castles & Contracts
Crown & Conflict
Life In the Shadows
Holy Matters
Plague & Peril
100

A system where land was exchanged for loyalty and service.

Feudalism

100

This man was crowned "Emperor of the Romans" in 800CE.

Charlemagne

100
A large estate owned by a lord.

A manor

100

This is where monks worked and lived

Monastery

100

These were common symptoms of the plague.

Fever, buboes, vomiting

200

A piece of land granted to a vassal/lord.

Fief

200

These two countries fought in the Hundred Years' War.

England and France

200

This class of people worked the land.

Serfs/Peasants.

200
The founder of Islam

Muhammad

200

This is how the Black Death spread.

Fleas/Rats on trade routes.

300

Knights provided this within the feudal system.

Military service / protection

300

This was the Church's goal during the First Crusade.

To capture Jerusalem from Muslim control.

300

The name of the tax paid to the Church, usually 10% of your income.

Tithe

300

If this happened to you, you were officially banned Church.

Excommunication

300
This percentage of Europe's population died from the plague

1/3 to 1/2

400

The name for a knight's code of conduct

Chivalry

400

This farmgirl-turned-soldier helped inspire victory during the Hundred Years' War.

Joan of Arc

400

This was a serf's legal status

Bound to the land; Not free but not enslaved

400

This mathematical concept was developed by Islamic scholars.

Algebra

400

These people where known for whipping themselves to seek forgiveness.

Flagellants

500

This event helped weaken feudalism in Europe.

The Black Death

500

This famous Muslim leader recaptured Jerusalem.

Saladin

500

The amount of deaths from the Black Plague impacted the manor system in this way.

Labor shortages gave peasants more bargaining power.

500

Long-term effect of the Crusades on Muslim trade routes

Disruption, but also Increased contact between Islam and Europe.

500
A long-term social change triggered by the Black Death.
Decline of feudalism / rise of the middle class.