Let Me Be Frank
Defining Moment
Family Feud(alism)
Take Me to Church
Town and Country
100
The king of the Franks who united most of the old western Roman Empire
Charlemagne
100
Define "illiterate"
unable to read and write
100
The term describing feudalism as a system of mutual obligations
feudal contract
100
Removing someone from Church activities like sacraments
excommunication
100
This directly sparked the growth of cities
the rise of trade
200
The king of the Franks who defeated the Muslims in 732 at the Battle of Tours
Charles Martel
200
Define "secular"
non-religious
200
Peasants bound to the land
serfs
200
The local division of the Catholic Church, supervised by a priest who was often the only connection people had to the Church
parish
200
The innovation that expanded the amount of land available for crops
three-field farming system
300
King of the Franks who conquered most of the Roman province of Gaul
Clovis
300
Define "manor"
the lord's estate, the heart of the feudal economy
300
A code of conduct adopted by knights in the later Middle Ages which required them to be brave, loyal, and true to their word
chivalry
300
Catholics believed that sacraments did this
bestowed God's grace upon them
300
Money for investment
capital
400
The ___________________ fully disrupted the last remaining unity of Charlemagne's Europe
Vikings
400
Define "fief"
estate granted by a lord
400
The three steps to becoming a knight
page
squire
knight
400
List the power structure of the church in order from highest to lowest
pope, cardinal, bishop, parish priest
400
a social class of merchants, traders, and artisans that ranked between nobles and peasants
the middle class
500
On Christmas Day 800, a _______________ pope had crowned a ____________ king successor to the _________________ emperors, effectively marking the establishment of a new civilization that became known as __________________.
Christian
Germanic
Roman
Christendom
500
Define "feudalism"
a loosely organized system of rule in which powerful local lords divided their landholdings among lesser lords known as vassals who pledged service and loyalty to the greater lord in exchange for protection
500
Draw the social pyramid of Medieval Europe
500
List the three vows of the Benedictine Rule
vow of obedience
vow of poverty
vow of chastity
500
List three things guilds did.
limited their membership in order to limit competition, set standards for quality of their goods, and provided social services