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THE VIKINGS
THE CHURCH
Non-believers "NON-BELIEVERS"
FEUDALISM
SALMAGUNDI
100
This is the ship that did as well in shallow rivers as in open seas.
What is a longship?
100
This is the holiday during which Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus.
What is Easter?
100
This was the area in which Jews were required to live in many medieval cities.
What is a ghetto?
100
There were almost one million of these laborers with very few rights during the height of feudalism.
What is a serf?
100
This group of former Vikings brought French to Britain.
Who were the Normans?
200
This is the monastery which was attacked by the Vikings - and terrified Europe in the process.
What was Lindisfarne?
200
This is what a first-year monk is called.
What is a novice?
200
He was the stormy Norse god whose symbol was the hammer.
Who was Thor?
200
He was an underling obligated to a lord to do him services in exchange for land. However, he was not necessarily poor or a laborer.
What is a vassal?
200
This Germanic language is called Old English but it is also called another name, named after the German tribes who brought it to Britain.
What is Anglo-Saxon?
300
This Norse god lost his eye in pursuit of great wisdom.
Who was Odin?
300
He is the clergyman in charge of a cathedral and its flock of parishioners (followers).
What is a bishop?
300
This major city needed protection from the Muslims during the First Crusade, but were happy to see the Crusaders move on.
What is Constantinople?
300
The typical peasant's structure was a one-room hut made of these materials - mud and sticks.
What is wattle and daub?
300
This language is a mixture of Old English and French.
What is Middle English?
400
These are the three main countries of Scandinavia.
What are Denmark, Sweden and Norway?
400
This pope called for the Crusades, claiming "God wills it!"
Who was Pope Urban II?
400
This is the name for the Muslims who conquered Spain in 793.
Who were the Moors?
400
This embroidered piece of cloth shows the history of the Norman Conquest.
What was the Bayeux Tapestry?
400
These boils gave the name for one name for the Black Plague.
What were the buboes?
500
This Viking settled in the area of North America he called Vinland.
Who was Leif Erikson?
500
This is the group of monks who whipped themselves out of a desperate belief that God might forgive humanity of its sins.
What are flaggelants?
500
This group of Jews fled from Spain and Portugal to North Africa while the Ashkenazi Jews settled mainly in Europe.
Who were the Sephardic Jews?
500
This is the name for the village ruled by a lord; his house was the grandest in the village.
What is a manor?
500
These Viking stories turned out to contain much accurate, historical information.
What were the sagas?