Religion
This religion was adopted by most of Europe during the Middle Ages.
What is Christianity?
This was an armored soldier on horseback who served their monarch or lord.
What is a knight?
This continent shares the Ural Mountains with Europe.
What is Asia?
This is the English translation of the Latin words for “middle age”.
This group of officials performed religious services in the Christian Church.
What is the clergy?
This person was the highest bishop of Rome, and the position was originally held by Peter the Apostle.
What is the pope?
This is the name for a plot of land given by a lord to a vassal in exchange for military or other types of service.
What is a fief?
This is the reason Europeans built many cities along rivers and coastlines.
This was a fatal plague that killed tens of millions of people over five years
What is a the Black Death?
This document declared that a monarch could not imprison barons without a credible reason.
What is the Magna Carta?
This rule required monks and nuns to grow their spirituality through prayer and work.
What is the Benedictine Rule?
These were the four major groups of the feudal system.
What are monarchs/kings, lords/nobles, vassals/knights, and serfs/peasants.
This is the disputed area between modern-day Israel and Palestine, including Jerusalem, that is sacred to Jews, Christians, and Muslims
What is the Holy Land?
This was a lawmaking group formed to advise the monarch of England and limit their power
What is Parliament?
These two leaders attempted to remove each other from power.
Who are King Henry and Pope Gregory?
This religious movement was started because Pope Urban II wanted to take control of Jerusalem and the Holy Land from Muslims already living there.
What are the Crusades?
This group abandoned their manors and rebelled against their lords for better pay and working conditions, leading to the decline of the economy.
Who are the serfs/peasants?
This European peninsula was home to an advanced society developed by Muslim Moors and became the center of conflict during the Reconquista.
What is the Iberian peninsula?
This is an association formed by groups of specialized craftspeople who often perform the same job.
What is a guild?
He was a conqueror who united many Europeans into one kingdom and was named the first emperor of Western Europe since the Roman Empire
Who is Charlemagne?
The act of banning a person from the Christian Church because of crimes or other wrongdoings against their religion.
What is excommunication?
Fill in the blank: New farming practices such as [blank], horse-drawn plows, and a three-field crop rotation system contributed to the collapse of feudalism.
What are iron plows?
This empire formed under the leadership of Otto the Great, who attempted to succeed Charlemagne as the pope’s emperor of Europe.
What is the Holy Roman Empire?
This was the process of the Christian kingdoms taking Spain back from the Moors.
What is Reconquista?
These monarchs created the Spanish Inquisition, which persecuted, imprisoned, and removed Jews and Muslims from Spain.
Who are King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella?