Vocabulary
During the Middle Ages most people became Christian through the work of these people - traveling people whose job was to spread the Christian faith.
Missionaries
This mans law code was so important because it became the basis for modern western law.
Justinian
The only institution in the West to survive the fall of Rome
The Roman Catholic Church
Head of the Catholic Church who called for the Crusades.
Pope
After the fall of Rome the Eastern Roman Empire became known as this, and was ruled from Constantinople.
Byzantine Empire
The Germans invaded the Western Roman Empire
True
Social and Political system of the Middle Ages (hint: lords/knights/vassals)
Feudalism
This person is the most powerful leader in the Catholic Church. The only thing he could not do was become king himself.
Pope
The term used to describe the splitting of the eastern and western churches.
Great Schism
Goal of the Crusades.
Retake the Holy Land from the Muslims.
What country today is the home of the Roman Catholic Church?
Italy
The Capital of the Byzantine Empire was Byzantium
False
Economic system that supported Feudalism during the Middle Ages.
Manorial System
Justinian’s wife
Theodora
Reason Europe became a Feudal society.
Needed to defend themselves against constant raids and invasions.
Similar to labor unions, these restricted competition and set quality standards during the Middle Ages.
Guilds
These people were blamed for their supposed poisoning of wells during the Black Death.
Jews
Julius Caesar made the Roman Empire a Christian nation
False
Anyone who accepts land in exchange for services.
Vassal
The leader of the Eastern Orthodox church
Patriarch
Important trade routes were open which spread Muslim culture throughout Europe was a POSITIVE effect of what wars?
Crusades
The name for the great plague that occurred in the 14th century that killed up to half of Europe’s population.
Black Death
Reason the Holy Land was considered "holy".
Blessed by the Pope.
Peasants had the ability to be socially mobile
False
Opinion that goes against the official teaching of the Church.
Heresy
The man or woman who was more powerful than the Pope.
No one
A tract of land controlled by a King and his vassals
Kingdom
Why were many texts of the Middle Ages religious?
few people outside the Church could read or write.
What was the purpose of the Inquisition?
Trials to root out heresy in the Catholic Church.
The Muslims maintained control of the Holy Land after the Crusades
True