Castle
What are the three stages of becoming a knight?
Page, Squire, Knight
Poor people who made their living as farmers or laborers?
Peasants
An unpaid person training in a craft or trade?
Apprentice
The code of honor which was a conduct by which knights were supposed to live?
The Code of Chivalry
The owner of a manor?
lord
One of the deadliest plagues of the Middle Ages was called?
The Black Death or the Black Plague or the Bubonic Plague
Where do monks live?
Monasteries
A huge Medieval church.
Cathedral
A competition where 2 knights would charge at each other and try to know each other off their horses?
Jousting
Colored Glass often used in windows?
Stained Glass
This represented a family and was used to tell knights apart from other knights?
A charitable gift of money or goods to the poor and needy?
Alms
Enclosed courtyard of a castle
Bailey
The tallest/strongest structure of a castle?
Keep
Narrow vertical slits in a castle wall through which arrows could be fired from inside, shielding the archer?
Arrow Loops
A large estate including farms and a village?
Manor
The name of the room where monks wrote?
Scriptorium
Expeditions/trips to regain the Holy Land?
Crusades
The area along the tops of the walls from which soldiers defend the castle?
Wall Walk
Metal or Wood gate dropped vertically just in the main gate to the castle?
Portcullis
A system in which land was owned by kings or lords and other people were under the nobility?
The Feudal System
A Medieval organization of a craft or trade?
Guild
A common book of prayer carried by ordinary medieval woman/clergy?
Book of Hours
What was the dominant religion of Western Europe during the Middle Ages?
Catholicism
Troubadour