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Medieval Word Wall
It's a Date!
The Feudal System
Geography Review
Up Until the Middle Ages
100
The religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
What is Christianity?
100
476
What is the fall of the Western Roman Empire?
100
Lords gave vassals this in the feudal system.
What is land?
100
The Romans called this sea "our lake."
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
100
The Code of Hammurabi, the Twelve Tables and Justinian's Code are all examples.
What are written laws?
200
A large estate including, farmland and villages, held by a lord.
What is a manor?
200
1000-1300 sounds like a new stone age but it wasn't.
What is the High Middle Ages?
200
Vassals promised lords these two things in the feudal system?
What are loyalty and military service?
200
Italy, Korea and Arabia, surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
200
What the Bantu people of West Africa did when food got scarce.
What is migrate?
300
The belief that God gives monarchs the right to rule.
What is the divine right of kings.
300
1350 - Ashes, ashes, we all fall down
What is the start of the Black Death?
300
The feudal system arose when this fell.
What is the Roman Empire?
300
A wind that brings rain in the rainy season to India.
What is a monsoon?
300
The church that developed as a result of Russia's cultural interactions with the Byzantine Empire.
What is the Eastern Orthodox Church?
400
The highest type of European noble, ranking just below a prince.
Who is a duke?
400
1450 - when people really started "texting."
What is the year Johannes Guttenberg invented the printing press?
400
Peasants in the feudal system received this from the lord for working the land.
What is protection?
400
A chain of islands. Japan is one.
What is an archipelago?
400
The social scientist who keeps field notes from excavation sites, conducts radiocarbon dating test results and catalogues artifacts.
Who is an archaeologist?
500
Land granted by a lord to a vassal in exchange for loyalty and military service.
What is a fief?
500
1215 - Richard the Lionhearted's baby brother forced to sign.
What is the Magna Carta?
500
Two groups who attacked Western Europe at the start of the Middle Ages, leading to the rise of feudalism.
Who are the Vikings, the Germanic tribes, the Magyars from Central Asia or Muslims from the Middle East.
500
A narrow "neck" of land that connects two larger bodies of land.
What is an isthmus?
500
The social scientist who looks at the supply of resources and the demand for goods and services.
Who is an economist?