Tell me the five categories of social status in the ME.
What is church authorities, kings, nobles, knights, and peasants.
100
Who was the highest church authority and what is his power called?
Who is the pope. What is papal supremacy.
100
(Worth 100 each) Identify these three inventions...
•Peasants used the _______ that dug deep into the soil and was a great improvement on the old wooden version.
•New ______ allowed peasants to use horses instead of oxen to pull the plows which meant they could plow more in a day and so they made their fields bigger.
•If there were no fast streams nearby to run a watermill, it was likely that they would substitute it for a _______ which was invented to serve the same function – grinding grain into flour.
What is the iron plow, harnesses, and the windmill.
100
The black death was spread by ______ ?
What is fleas that bite rats, then bite people.
100
What were the three vows of benedictine rule.
What is obedience, poverty and purity.
200
What was the relationship between lords and vassals based on?
What is loyalty and service. Vassals would give these to his Lord in return for protection. This was a mutual obligation established by a feudal contract.
200
Men and women who lived in seclusion to worship and serve God were called _______ & ________ .
What is monks and nuns.
200
New ________ were established between Europe and Asia which enabled the exchange of good from one place to another that people had not seen before.
What is trade routes.
200
The Black death was the first instance of ________ warfare.
What is biological.
300
What code did knights live by and what were the main features of that code?
What is chivalry characterized by being brave, honest, and loyal.
300
What two basic needs did they serve the community with?
What is health and education.
300
These were established at the intersection of trade routes and encouraged people to move from the countryside for business. They became permanent centers of buying and selling goods.
What is new towns.
300
The Black Death spread the quickest along _________.
What is trade routes.
300
(Worth 1500 points) What three major events mark the decline and end of the feudal era.
What is the developments of the economy (buying, selling, currency), the Black Death (equalizes society), and the decline of Church power.
400
Explain how a manor is a self sufficient system.
What is that all the needs of its people are met by its own economy.
400
What did monks do that made them responsible for keeping ancient knowledge and learning alive.
What is they copied ancient texts and preserved them.
400
With the technological developments of the Medieval era, and the growing population, Lords expanded their production by clearing ______ , ______ , _______ and turning them into farmland.
What is forest, swamps, and wastelands.
400
List one immediate effect of the Black Death.
What is...
1. Large amounts of land became available when its owner died of the disease.
2. Because so many died, there were less people able to work and so wages for
labor became very high.
400
The revival of long distance trade, establishment of merchants and craftsmen, and expansion of production resulted in the revival and use of ______. This eliminated the early system of trading goods and services.
What is currency.
500
What four things determined a person's rank in feudal society?
What is land, wealth, military rank, and popularity.
500
The church held the power of ________ which was why it was more powerful than the kings and nobility.
What is salvation.
500
Overpopulation was aided by adopting the _______ ________ system which resulted in more food, at a higher variety, so people could have better nutrition.
What is the three field system.
500
List the very significant long term effect of the Black Death.
What is... 1 + 2 = 3
1. Many of the victims of the plague were hardworking men. The few survivors were able to acquire wealth because the need for their services was in such high demand.
2. Lords were forced to sell off parts of their manors because they could not afford to pay for it to be taken care of.
3. This meant that the lower class and the higher class became more equal. The power of the lords decreased and the power of the common people increased. A new type of society emerged and people from the lowest class were no longer so different from the people in the higher class.
500
Trade routes enable exchange of goods and ________ (We mentioned 6 things in class that could go in this blank. For every two your team will receive 500 points - must be the ones we discussed in class)
What is knowledge, ideas, religion, culture, tradition, language.