Causes
The term for a system in which land and privileges are exchanged for loyalty and service.
What is Feudalism?
This individual was responsible for the oversight of and daily running of a manor.
What is a Lord?
What is a Lady?
These people worked the land for nobles and knights in exchange for protection.
The 2 groups of people most likely to receive an education in Medieval Europe?
Who are Nobles and Clergy?
What is trial by ordeal?
The physical landscapes that impacted how civilizations changed, developed, and influenced each other.
What is Geography?
A person who received a fief or fiefs in exchange for loyalty to a king - including supplying him with an army.
What is a Vassal?
Peasants who were bound to the Lord or land and did not have the freedom to move.
What is a serf?
A piece of land owned by the church where monks lived and worked.
What is a monastery?
An agreement between nobles and the monarchy that required the king to consult Church leaders and nobles before issuing special taxes.
What is the Magna Carta?
The collapse of this ruling force in the Mediterranean and much of Europe led to instability and ushered in the medieval period of Europe.
What is the Roman Empire?
This person was a professional soldier trained in courtly manners, chivalry, and war.
What is a knight?
This kind of tax was an annual tax per person.
What is "head money"?
What is a "head tax"?
The largest landowner in Medieval Europe.
What is the Catholic Church?
King who imposed legal reforms which shifted power from feudal lords to royal courts.
Who is King Henry II?
The word used by Romans for anyone who didn't follow Roman ways (likely derived from mocking way of referring to foreign languages).
What is Barbarian?
I was the "Great" ruler of the Early Middle Ages.
Who is Charlemagne?
The person in a town whose occupation is grinding grain into flour.
What is the Miller?
An Italian philosopher and theologian in the 1200's who argued strongly that Faith and Reason work together.
Who is Thomas Aquinas?
War between Britain and France in which longbows played a major role early on.
What is the Hundred Years' war?
We were the 3 groups of people who most threatened Europe in the 9th and 10th centuries.
Who were the Muslims, Magyars, and Vikings?
The realm of Charlemagne, which fell apart after his death.
What is the Holy Roman Empire?
Business associations of people who practiced the same craft.
What are guilds?
The concept that there is a universal order built into nature that can guide moral thinking.
What is Natural Law?
The social and political sense that helped the French to eventually defeat the British.
What is National Unity?