Catholic Church
A family's payment of 1/10th of its income to a church.
What is a tithe?
A disease that decimated the European population.
Black Death
The lowest position in a feudal society.
What is a serf?
A war fought between England and France for control of the land in France.
What is the 100 Years War?
The leader that won the Battle of Tours and stopped the spread of Islam into western Europe.
Charles (the Hammer) Martel
The church official most people would interact with on a daily basis.
What is a priest?
A group of people blamed for the Black Death in medieval Europe.
Who are the Jews?
A piece of land granted to a vassal from a lord.
What is a fief.
The most successful Crusade for the Christians.
The First Crusade.
He was crowned the Holy Roman Emperor in 800 AD by the pope.
Who is Charlemagne?
This person is the head of the Catholic Church.
What is the pope?
Historians believe that the plague travelled around Europe, Asia, and Africa via
What is merchants or traders?
The highest position on the social structure in the feudal system.
What is a lord?
This battle stopped the spread of Islam into Western Europe in the year 732.
What is the Battle of Tours?
William the Conqueror secured his rule over England after this battle.
What is the Battle of Hastings?
This is the pope that called for the first Crusade.
Who is Pope Urban?
A major effect of the Black Death in Europe.
What is a shortage of laborers and people throughout Europe?
The major economic and social structure in medieval Europe.
What is Feudalism?
The First Crusade was called to liberate this city.
What is Jerusalem?
A respected and famous Muslim leader that granted Christians a peace treaty so that they could travel to Jerusalem.
Who is Saladin?
The most important force providing unity and stability in western Europe in the Middle Ages.
What is the Catholic Church?
Another name for the Black Death. It comes from the swollen lymph nodes that a person gets from the disease.
Bubonic Plague
The main characteristic of a feudal society is..
What is and exchange of land for services?
A very important effect of the Crusades.
What is a desire for eastern trade goods?
The French hero of Orleans that helped instill French nationalism during the Hundred Years War. Was later executed by the British.
Who is Joan of Arc?