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100
I am a wealthy member of feudal society who owned large amounts of land.
What is a noble/lord?
100

This united the people of Europe during the Medieval period.

What is Christianity?

100
This was a series of military expiditions to reclaim the "Holy Land".
What are the Crusades?
100
This economic activity thrived throughout Europe because of the generally mild climate and dependable rainfall.
What is agriculture or farming?
100

These are the five categories of people in the hierarchy of power during the Medieval period (think of the triangle).

Who are Popes, Kings/Queens, Nobles/Lords, Knights, and Peasants/Serfs?

200
I am a vassal hired for protection.
What is a knight?
200

This is the language the Medieval Bible was written in that only the clergy could read and interpret.

What Latin?

200

This city was fought over during the Crusades.

What is Jerusalem?

200
In feudal Europe, this was the main part of a nobles land where most needed things were produced.
What is the manor?
200
This was the social and economic system in which nobles gave land to their vassals in exchange for service.
What is feudalism?
300
I was not allowed to leaved the land which I lived on and farmed.
What is a serf?
300

This is the name for anyone who is connected to the church or works for it.

What is the clergy?

300

These two things are what kings expected in return for them giving land.

What is military service and loyalty?

300
This increased between Europe and Asia because of the Crusades.
What is trade?
300

In Medieval Europe, these church leaders often had greater wealth and power than ruling monarchs.

What are Popes?

400
These two factors made the manor the center of European life during the Middle Ages?
What is farming and protection?
400

What Christians wanted to do in Jerusalem, during the Crusades.

What is pilgrimage?

400

The only Crusade that Christians won...but then would eventually lose again.

What is the First Crusade?

400
These were organizations that tradespeople formed to control quantity and quality of the products they made.
What are guilds?
400

I was the dynasty that had years of unity after the Roman Empire collapsed.

What is the Carolingian Dynasty?

500
This code of honor was popular among European knights.
What is chivalry?
500

This was arguably worse than the Church killing you during the Medieval period.

What is excommunication?

500

This was one major even that led to the end of feudalism (and killed millions).

What is the Bubonic Plague?

500

These occurred on holidays usually and led to the growth of towns and cities in Medieval times.

What are regional fairs?

500

At the height of this dynasty (after the Roman Empire collapsed), this leader was named Roman Emperor in 800.

Who was Charlemagne?