Social Structure
The End
Causes
Feudalism
100
These people were in power during feudalism.
What is the nobles?
100
Swept through Europe, helped weaken feudalism, and killed millions of people
What is Black Death? (Plauge)
100
King Martel gave nobles willing to fight for him this.
What is land?
100
Based on barter and exchanges, rather than money
What is feudalism?
200

Had a lot of power, but were not nobles.

What is the clergy?

200
Power shifted from nobles to this person.
What is the King?
200

People needed protection from this group of people specifically.

Who are the Vikings?

200

The center of a manor.

What is the castle?

300
Who was expected to obey thier lord? (Nobles)
What is the knights?
300

The bubonic plague accelerated the movement here.

What are towns and cities?
300

These men fought on behalf of the lord in exchange for food and shelter.

Who are knights?
300

"From cradle to grave"

What is Christianity?

400
Lived in the village and took care of animals and agriculture. 

Who are the peasants?

400
A series of holy wars, that helped weaken feudalism
What is the Crusades?
400

The kings of Western Europe had too much of this and needed to give it away to friends and family for farming. 

What is land?

400

These people had no freedom and came with the land when it moved from one vassal to another vassal.

Who are serfs?

500

Walled-in, self-contained world located on the land belonging to a lord.

What is the manor?

500
Fueled the desire for knowledge and learning after the Bubonic Plague and the Crusades.

What is cultural diffusion?

500

This group of people "invaded" Europe and established kingdoms that clashed with local Romans. 

Who are the Germans?

500

Code that knights lived by.

What is chivalry?