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Year in which the prophet of Islam, Muhammad, was born.
What is 570 CE?
Large ocean to the West of the European continent.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
Men who lived in a religious community who prayed, studied, and worked together all in the name of God.
What are monks?
Center of life in the Middle Ages, run by the local lord, which included villages, farmland, and forests.
What is the manor?
Not counting today, the number of school days we have left this year.
What is 14?
Year in which Charlemagne, King of the Franks, was crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
What is 800 CE?
What is the Scandinavian peninsula?
A religious community for women.
What is a convent?
The king would split his land into smaller parcels called this.
What is a fief?
US holiday for honoring the men and women who have died serving our country in the armed forces.
What is Memorial Day?
European feudalism began in this year.
What is 1000 CE?
Russian mountain range that separates Europe from Asia.
What are the Ural Mountains?
What is a cathedral?
In Medieval Europe, people who were bound to the land and performed manual labor from sunrise to sunset 6 days a week.
What are serfs?
The winner of Game 1 of the NBA finals yesterday.
What is the Golden State Warriors?
In 1347 CE, this disease spread from Asia to Europe and wiped out more than half of the population.
What is the Black Death?
Island off the North coast of France, across the English Channel.
What is England?
Examples are baptism and communion.
What are sacraments?
In feudal society, you were born into a class of people & could not move up or down the hierarchy. If you owned this, however, you had great power.
What is land?
What is Michael Jackson?
What is the Late Middle Ages?
What is Constantinople?
A group of people who are trained for religious services.
What is clergy?
Knights pledged loyalty and protection to their feudal lord. At this age, boys would act as a knight's servant in hopes of becoming a knight at age 21.
What is 7 years old?
Parts of the Earth's crust that are in constant motion.
What are tectonic plates?