Medieval Knights
Term for a boy, 6 or 7 years old, that has left home to gain skills in horse riding and archery, and learn to read & write.
What is a Page?
This group vowed to provide the king with soldiers when needed in exchange for favours when needed.
Who are the Nobles?
People who bought goods and sold them to the public.
What are Merchants?
The people who guarded the castle using bows and arrows.
Who were Archers?
The political and spiritual leader of the Roman Catholic Church.
Who is the Pope?
A Medieval competition between two knights on horseback. The challenge is to knock the other knight off his horse.
What is jousting?
Low ranking noble or knight who promised to support a lord in exchange for land.
Who is a vassal?
This individual worked for a master who taught him a trade and gave them food, shelter, and clothes.
What is an Apprentice?
Most important room in the castle, used for meeting and dining.
What is the Great Hall?
Community where monks lived, prayed, worshipped, and studied Christianity.
What is a Monastery?
At the age of 14 or 15, a page is assigned to a particular knight who continues his instruction. He helps the knight don his armor and cares for the horses.
What is a Squire?
Political system in which the King was at the top and the peasants were near the bottom.
What is Feudalism?
What were blacksmiths?
Large river-like ditch that circled the castle
What is a Moat?
The Catholic Church supported the _______, which was a war to claim the land at Jerusalem.
What is the Crusades?
Armor that is made of thousands of small metal rings riveted together to form a mesh.
What is Chain Mail?
The term that the Nobles called the lowly peasants.
What are the Serfs?
These people worked the fields during the day.
Who were the Ladies?
Hidden holes above a castle's door though which boiling hot liquids could be dumped , or rocks hurled down on invaders.
What are Murder Holes?
Catholic worship services that Medieval Europeans attended on Sunday and Holy Days.
What is Mass?
What is a lance?
This act was put into law in order to establish some human rights for medieval peasants.
What is the Magna Carta?
Main place of worship holding the Bishops's throne that could take up to 100 years to complete. Hint: another name for Church
What was a Cathedral?
Approximately how long did it take for a medieval castle to be built? Hint: it's a multiple of 5....
What is a decade (10 years).
True or False: The King was always more powerful than the Pope during Medieval Times.