Feudalism
What are the 4 "hierarchy" levels in the Fuedalsim Pyramid?
Bottom - Serfs & freemen (Peasents)
2nd level - Knights
3rd level - Nobles
Top level - King
In a hierarchy people are ranked one above another according to their importance. People were born into a level of feudal society and they expected to stay in that level for their entire lives.
True
What is the name of a popular city-state?
Various Answers...
True or false: The back death lasted for 6 months.
False - Millions of Europeans died of the Black Death between 1346 and 1350. Regular outbreaks of the plague continued for the next several hundred years.
The Renaissance!
Which hierarchy level would you expect to be illiterate?
Bottom level (Peasents)
The black death arrived in Europe by plane from Western countries.
False
Dozens of city-states grew up across the northern half of Italy. They were “in the right place at the right time” to become the wealthiest cities of Europe Aspects of their geography contributed to their success. What does the term geography mean?
Geography is the study of places and the relationships between people and their environments.
How did the black death arrive in Europe?
Flea's on rats
What does the term Renaissance mean?
Revival or Rebirth
What level would bishops & Barons be at?
Level 3 (Nobles)
Bishops had as much power as Barons.
True
During the Renaissance period, Italy was divided into "city-states". If we were to relate this to how Canada is structured, what term would we use to describe each region/boundary in Canada?
Provinces
What group of people likely suffered the most? Monarchs, Nobals, Knights, or Peasants?
The Peasants!
The ___________ were a series of wars during the Middle Ages where the Christians of Europe tried to retake control of Jerusalem and the Holy Land from the Muslims.
Crusades
Which of the nobles below would be at the lowest level held in the church hierarchy?
Bishops, Parishioners, Priests, Pope
Parishioners
Serfs were skilled workers who paid rent and could leave the manor whenever they wished. (They usually had a skill needed by others on the manor.)
False - These Peasents were called "Freemen"
Rome
Another popular name for the black death is the...
Bubonic Plague!
The ________ __________ was an interconnected series of ancient trade routes connecting China and the Mediterranean.
Silk Road.
Approximately what dates was the Feudal System utilized in European society? Please provide a start date to end date
500 AD - 1400
If you were a deeply religious person during medieval and Renaissance times, you might decide to join a religious order and devote your entire life to God. Men became nuns and entered monasteries; women became monks and entered convents.
FALSE
-Men = Monks
-Women = Nuns
A city-state consists of a city that is politically independent and the rural area around it. This rural area is called the ________land.
Hinterland
What year do historians belive the black Death arrived in Europe?
The summer of 1348
What word can be used the describe the following definition.
A collection of beliefs about life and the universe held by an individual or a group; the overall perspective from which one sees and interprets the world.
Worldview.