The Feudal Pyramid
Most important member in Feudal society: ruled over all other levels.
What is the king?
What two groups were fighting in the crusades
What are the Christians and the Muslims
French teenager who helped to win the Hundred Year's War for France by becoming a Martyr.
Who is Joan of Arc
How did the Crusades impact trade and what was encouraged?
What is it increased and credit and banking was encouraged?
This event killed over 1/3 of the population of Europe during a 5 year period.
What is the Black Death?
This was the largest level of Feudal society.
What is the peasants and serfs?
He was the Muslim army leader in the crusades.
Who is Saladin?
This Russian King was known as a tsar and expanded Russia
Who is Ivan the Great?
This document gave rights to the English people and limited the rights of the King.
What is the Magna Carta?
What impact did the Black Plague have on the church?
This is the benefit the NOBLES provided to the KING.
What is ruling over the king's land and providing tax money and soldiers?
This area was the goal of the Crusades
What is Jerusalem OR the Holy Land
This Conqueror conquered the kingdom of England in 1066, unifying the island and creating a kingdom that would become one of the strongest in history.
Who is William the Conqueror?
This was the last remnant of the Roman Empire, was located in Greece and Turkey
What is the Byzantine Empire?
Weapon perfected by the English during the Hundred Year's War which could fire an arrow through plate armor.
What is the longbow?
Who controls the Manor?
What is the Lord?
Charlemagne was crowned this on December 25, 800AD.
What is Holy Roman Emperor?
"King of the Franks," early Middle Ages king who unified the kingdoms of France and Germany for the first time since the Roman Empire.
Who is Charlemange?
The system by which Medieval towns popped up for protection around Noblemen.
What is the Manor System?
What is the time period directly following the Middle Ages (which means "rebirth"), a time of investment in education and artwork?
What is the Renaissance?
What caused the Feudal System to begin?
What is Invaders disrupting trade and towns declining.
These places were centers of learning and education away from the corruption of the Catholic Church, monks created "illuminated manuscripts."
What are monastaries?
King and a Queen who helped to unify the kingdom of Spain.
Who were Ferdinand and Isabella?
The land that is given to a lord to live, work and control.
What is a fief?
What animal transferred the Bubonic Plague
What is Fleas and Rats