Peasants!
True or False: Peasants were peasants for life.
What is False? It was rare, but there was social mobility, especially if a male family member became a priest.
This worm like animal was used for EVERYTHING! Today were refer to someone who sucks the life/energy/money out of someone as a ___________!
What is a leech?
Boys (and sometimes girls) were often dedicated to monasteries because the families had too many kids. Not was there one less kid to feed, but it was considered a blessing to have a monk/priest/nun in the family.
What is TRUE!
True or False: Vikings wore horns on their helmets!
What is FALSE! This was a stage costumer's idea to make the short dude look tall in the 19th Century (1800's)!
The ____________ Period of Architecture lasted about 4 centuries.
What is the Gothic period?
Peasants were not at the bottom of the social triangle, these people were.
What are serfs?
This modern medicine is derived from the foxglove plant, which is in the Deadly Nightshade plant family. P.S. So are TOMATOES!
What is heart medication! AKA Digitalis!
Church Bells chimed at 6, 12 & 6 o'clock. Why?
What is to wake you up and pray? *You ate afterwards, breaking your fast. Like Breakfast, Midfast and Evenfast.
True or False: You could drink the water!
What is TRUE! It was actually also encouraged! Clean water sources were plentiful and cities spent $$ to make sure the water stayed clean. Beer and wine just had better press agents, and there were times drinking the alcohol was safer.
Probably the most distinguishing feature of Gothic architecture, the ___________________ __________________________, allowed for higher and heavier buildings.
What is the flying buttress?
What is TRUE? A peasant's diet was far healthier than a royal's diet. It had more variety and do not have as much red meat and fatty dishes.
The cure for a particular disease was often determined by using a ________________ that looked like the major symptom.
What is a plant? *Example: If you had hemorrhoids, called piles, you used a plant called pilewort to cure them. Spoilers-it didn't work!
Many famous medieval saints lived the church life. They also saw visions. There is a less religious reason for the visions. What was it?
What is they were hungry and had what today would be diagnosed as anorexia/and or bulimia due to extreme personal fasting and food restriction.
True or False: Medieval armor was light enough for the knight to move around and fight on the ground.
What is FALSE! Medieval armor was surprisingly light and easy to move around in. It was pretty high tech for the time and it was tailor made for the individual.
True or False: Romanesque architecture was characterized by GINORMOUS stained glass windows!
What is FALSE! Gothic architecture featured huge stained glass windows and A LOT of stone ornamentation!
Peasants made up this modern societal class (2025).
What is working class?
A great way to be accused of being a ____________, was to be a midwife.
What is a WITCH!
The oldest cathedral in Europe was built in 800 AD/CE by Charlemagne the Great, the 1st Holy Roman Emperor. Where is it?
What is Germany?
True or False: Most witches were hanged and NOT during the Middle Ages or Medieval Era.
What is TRUE! Hanging was the preferred method of dispatching a witch. The infamous witch hunts actually took place during the Renaissance and the Age of Enlightenment! (Late 1500's-to Early 1800's)
Most surviving structures of the Gothic style of architecture are _________________.
What is churches or cathedrals?
True or False: Peasants were always very poor people with miserable lives!
FALSE! Peasants were just non-land, non-royal people. Many were quite wealthy and well off. The term is considered derogatory today.
True or False: The Plague Doctor Mask is a Medieval 'Fit!
What is FALSE! The Plague Doctor 'Fit is from the 18th (1700's)!
Pope Alexander VI had a VERY famous family-The Borgias! His sons were psychos and his daughter, Lucrezia, was (wrongly) of being a serial poisoner. What was her alleged method of delivering poison?
What is a poison ring?
True or False: They thought the Earth was flat!
What is 100% FALSE! It had been known since the time of the Ancient Greeks that the Earth was round. They did, however, think the Sun revolved around the Earth!
True or False: Gargoyles are meant to scare away evil spirits and were definitely from the Medieval Ages!
What is False? Gargoyles were designed as water spouts and they looked really cool! They also were really a Gothic Revival invention from the 1700's-1800's! The most famous gargoyles are on the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris France!