Historians call the time period from 500-1500 A.D., (which is 1000 years after the fall of the Roman Empire) The ....
What is Middle Ages?
100
From 500-800 A.D., was a time when hundreds of little kingdoms/tribes were continuously fighting, travel was dangerous, and there was little to no education, this time period was known as the....
What is the Dark Ages?
100
In the year 800, western Europe/The Holy Roman Empire was independent from this empire.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
100
These people established the largest of the new Germanic kingdoms in present day France.
What/who is the Franks?
100
At the request of the Pope, he was crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire in the year 800.
What/who is Charlemagne?
200
A political and military system based on the holding of land.
What is Feudalism?
200
Top of the pyramid of Feudal Society.
What is a King or Monarch?
200
Above Knights and Vassals on the pyramid of Feudal Society.
What is Nobles?
200
A person who received land from a king or noble and gave loyalty in return.
What is a Vassal?
200
On the lowest level of society.
What is Peasant?
300
A peasant who was not free and was tied to the land. No one could by or sell them. But they had to stay on the manor on which they had been born.
What is a serf?
300
A young noble who learned certain behaviors to become a knight.
What is a Page?
300
A soldier who fought for a lord.
What is a Knight?
300
Agricultural technicians, on the same level as Merchants and Craftsmen.
What is Farmers?
300
Land, and everything on it, including(peasants) which a lord gave to a vassal.
What is a Fief?
400
Floating on a cloud above the social pyramid of Feudal Society.
What is the Pope or Church?
400
A young noble who learned how to ride a horse and use weapons so as to become a knight.
What is a Squire?
400
Sold merchandise and on the same level as Farmers and Craftsmen.
What is a Merchant?
400
This was that part of the fief that peasants farmed to support a lord's family.
What is a Manor?
400
On a manor people who lived there, grew, raised, or made nearly everything that they needed. This is called being...
What is self-sufficient?
500
This was a long steel-tipped spear.
What is a Lance?
500
This percentage of people who lived during the Middle Ages were peasants.
What is 90%?
500
When a lord left one of his three fields unplanted each year, this allowed the soil to rest (build up new nutrients). When crops were planted the following year it produced many more crops.
This was called the _______-______ system.
What is the three-field system?
500
With improved farming techniques, the population of Europe from the year 1000 to 1300 A.D., grew __________ times as big.
What is three times as big?
500
Nobles held tournaments, or contests between knights. Two knights in armor, each with a lance would ride toward each other at full speed and try to knock each other off his horse. This was called a...