Vocabulary
Power of the Church
The Crusades
The Bubonic Plague
Geography
Manorial Life & Feudalism
Holy Roman Empire
100
This system of promises governed relationships between lords and vassals
What is Feudalism?
100
During the Middle Ages, power in Europe shifted from the nobles to these.
Kings & Popes
100
These are the people whose faith is Islam who the Christians fought against during the Crusades.
Who are the Muslims?
100
The deadly plague that swept through Europe in the 1300s was often called the Black _____.
What is death?
100
Most of southern Europe is covered by these which made it hard to travel from region to region. Many different languages developed in an area that is relatively small.
What are mountains?
100
The Vikings, Magyars, and Muslims' invasions of Europe all contributed greatly to the development of this system throughout Europe, whereby towns and villages sought to protect themselves.
What is the Feudal System or Feudalism?
100
This is how the Holy Roman Emperors came to power.
What is they were elected by the empire's nobles?
200
These medieval laborers could not leave their land without the lord's permission.
What are serfs?
200
This caused a split in the Christian church that started in the 1000's.
What is the effect of bishops in eastern Europe refusing to recognize the authority of the pope?
200
This is how many Christian Crusades there were.
What is nine?
200
This commercial activity helped to spread the plague.
What is trade?
200
The areas of Northern and Southern europe had a very different geography and climate causing the regions' way of life to be very __________.
What is different?
200
In exchange for pledging their loyalty to a Lord, knights received this.
What is a fief or fiefdom?
200
While education was exclusively for males, and while instruction was often in Latin, and religious education was emphasized, this practice is one that you now share with students back then.
What is taking tests?
300
These usually consisted of a large house, pastures, fields, forests, and a village.
What are manors?
300
This Saint thought that rational thought could support Christian beliefs.
What was St. Thomas Aquinas?
300
This event during the Crusades is largely responsible for the Byzantines' mistrust of western Christians.
What was the sacking of Constantinople?
300
They believe that in cities, the plague spread through the sewage systems by these rodents.
What are rats?
300
The continent that includes Europe and Asia is referred to as this.
What is Eurasia?
300
Feudalism spread to Britain after this French Norman, conquered it.
Who is William the Conqueror?
300
Their rule of Spain ended in 1002.
Who were the Moors or the Muslims or the Muslim Moors?
400
These people started Feudalism in Europe.
Who were the Franks?
400
The nobles made King John sign this document in 1215 because they wished to limit the King's power.
What is the Magna Carta?
400
This is the most important result of the Crusades.
What is trade and the exchange of ideas between Europe & Asia increased?
400
This bug jumped from rats onto humans and they think this helped to spread the disease.
What are fleas?
400
These two peoples are the most responsible for spreading the ideas of Christianity throughout Europe. They both start with "M"
What are the Monks and the Missionaries?
400
This was the most important duty of a Vassal to his Lord.
What was to fight for him in times of war?
400
Pope Innocent III caused a 20 year war in France by calling for a crusade against these.
Who are heretics?
500
A noble who gave land to a vassal in exchange for military service.
What was a lord?
500
The 100 Years war was started when this country invaded this country.
What is England invaded France?
500
This was the point of the Crusades.
What was to recapture the Holy Land or Jerusalem for the Christians?
500
Sometimes there were not enough people left to do this with the dead, during the plague.
What is bury them?
500
Charles Martel pushed the Moors out of France into this country.
What is Spain?
500
This is the description for what system that existed in the Middle Ages: Serfs farmed lands owned by lords.
What is the Manorial System?
500
The Benedictine Order required that people own as few of these as possible.
What are possessions?
600
This was a famous Missionary who traveled to Northern Europe and teach about Christianity.
Who was Patrick?
600
Christians punished Jews by forcing them to flee these.
What are their homes?
600
This prompted the Crusades and is the first event in a series of conflicts throughout Europe & the Middle East.
What was the effect of Pope Urban II calling on Christians to go fight the Muslim Turks?
600
This continent is where the plague came from.
What is Asia?
600
The marriage of Isabella & Ferdinand united these two regions.
What are Castille and Aragon?
600
An increase in this caused the growth of European cities around the year 1000.
What is population?
600
This period followed the Holy Roman Empire. It is another name for the Middle Ages or Dark Ages.
What are Medieval Times?