Life in the Castle
A yard where a noble could hold court.
Courtyard
The monks lived in _____.
What are Monasteries?
A new political and military system based on the holding of land.
What is Feudalism?
These people were bound to the land and could not be bought or sold like slaves.
What are serfs?
Students in ______ studied many subjects of higher learning.
What is University?
A contest between two Knights carrying lances and riding horses.
Joust
What is a Pilgrimage?
Land, and everything on it, which a lord gave to a vassal.
What is a fief?
The Manor was _______, because people who lived there could grow, raise, or make nearly everything they needed.
What is self-sufficient?
A style of architecture with thin walls, pointed arches, many windows, and flying buttresses.
What is Gothic?
In the Middle Ages, a contest between knights on horseback
Tournament
The name of the head of the Roman Catholic Church that called for a crusade against the Muslims.
Pope Urban II
A person who received land from a king or noble and gave loyalty in return.
What is a vassal?
The system of farming that left 1/3 of the lord's fields unplanted each year.
The ________ style of building uses thick walls and rounded arches.
What is Romanesque?
The serfs cooked food in the ___.
Courtyard.
In the early sixth century, a monk named _____ wrote a rule for monks and nuns.
Who is Benedict?
Knights began training by becoming a ______, and then became a _____ at age 15. By 21 they were knighted in a special ceremony.
What is a page and a squire?
Because people had more food than they needed, people had time to do other things, which led to the rebirth of _______.
What is learning?
Thomas Aquinas wrote _________, which he explained that faith and reason are both gifts from God.
What is Summa Theologica?
A dug-out area filled with water that circles a castle.
Moat
The Crusades caused a split between the ________ and the ________.
What is the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church?
Knights wore heavy armor and carried these three weapons:
What is a lance, dagger and battle ax?
Farming during the Middle Ages was changed because of 5 inventions:
What is the three-field system, the horseshoe, the plow, the waterwheel, and the windmill.
Three pieces of literature that tells about the heroic deeds of a warrior.
What is the Song of Roland, Nibelungenlied, and Beowulf.