Feudalism in Europe
Feudalism in Japan
The Church in the Middle Ages
Vocabulary
Black Death
100

The ruler and highest rank in the feudal order in Europe

Who is the King?

100

The head of state and hereditary monarch of Japan

Who is the emperor?

100

The dominant religion and center of life in Europe during the Middle Ages

What is the Roman Catholic Church?

100

People bound to the land and expected to work the land in exchange for certain rights

Who are serfs?

100

A devastating disease that swept through Europe killing millions

What is the Bubonic Plague (Black Death)?

200

An estate of land subject to feudal obligations

What is a fief?

200

A member of the warrior class in feudal Japan and loyal to the daimyo

Who is a samurai?

200

The head of the Catholic Church and major influence in Europe during the Middle Ages

Who is the Pope?

200
A type of social, economic and political system based on loyalty and service

What is Feudalism?

200

Widespread and rapid occurrence of an infectious disease isolated to a region

What is an epidemic?

300

Lords provided land for the knights in exchange for

What is military service or protection?

300

A geometric shape that can be used to symbolize the feudal system 

What is a pyramid?

300

A political and religious doctrine that states that a king's authority to rule comes directly from God, not the people

What is Divine Right?

300

A religious, social and moral code of conduct for knights

What is chivalry?

300

The portion of Europe's population killed by the Bubonic Plague in the Middle Ages

What is 1/3?

400

An estate owned by a lord that came with peasants to work the land

What is a manor system?

400

A samurai in Japan who had no lord or master

Who is a ronin?

400

Judicial Procedure led by the Catholic Church to identify and punish behaviors that go against the Church

What is Inquistion?

400

A person with absolute power and authority

Who is an autocrat?

400

The Black Death was spread by

What are rats and fleas?

500

The need for safety, security and a role for every group in society led to

What are the reasons feudalism developed as a political and social system?

500

A hereditary commander in chief in feudal Japan who held the most power

Who is the shogun?

500

The ultimate goal of the Crusades

What is reclaiming the Holy Land from the Muslims for the Christians?

500

A set of rules and regulations that govern the internal administration and hierarchy of the Church and its members

What is Canon Law?

500

Some positive outcomes of the Plague

What are labor increases, ending of feudalism and increased pay for peasants?