These are the years that span the late Middle Ages.
What are 1050 - 1500?
100
This is a king or noble who gave land to someone.
What is a lord?
100
This was part of a fief that peasants farm to support the lord's family.
What is a manor?
100
These religious heads set up schools in their cathedrals.
Who are bishops?
100
The Crusades were fought over the control of this land.
What is Palestine or the Holy Land?
200
This is what the Roman Catholic Church keep alive during the Middle Ages.
What is learning?
200
This was what the land and peasants who worked on the land was called.
What is a fief?
200
This area inside the castle walls contained many small buildings and sheds (blacksmith's workshop, the bakery, the kitchen, the stables) and rooms to store weapons and extra food.
What is the courtyard or bailey?
200
This kind of architecture had rounded arches.
What is Romanesque?
200
Kings and nobles joined the Crusades to gain more of this.
What is power?
300
This is the leader of the the Greek Orthodox Church.
What is a patriarch?
300
Lords gave this to vassals in exchange for their loyalty.
What is land?
300
This kind of farming helped farmers grow more food.
What is the three-field system?
300
This kind of architecture had pointed arches and flying buttresses to support thin walls.
What is Gothic?
300
This is what the pope promised to those who died on the crusade.
What is heaven?
400
Benedictine monks promised this.
What is never to marry, own property, or disobey the head of the monastery?
400
This is what a squire learned to do .
What is learn to ride a horse and use weapons?
400
This was a peasant who was bound to the land and whose life was controlled by the lord of the manor.
What is a serf?
400
This group of people helped a judge decide whether a person accused of a crime was innocent or guilty.
What is a jury?
400
These people conquered Palestine in the seventh century.
Who are Muslims?
500
These religious leaders set up schools in churches.
What are bishops?
500
This is what a squire became at the age of 21.
What is a knight?
500
This is why the lord of the manor did not have to buy many things from the outside.
The manor was self-sufficient.
500
These were the subjects students studied in cathedral schools:
What is religion, Latin, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, logic, and music
500
In 1291, Muslims attacked this Christian city of the Holy Land.