Start of Middle Ages
This is known as the "Dark Ages" or "Medieval Period"
What is the Middle Ages?
These are specially trained soldiers who protected the lords & peasants
Who are knights?
This institution sought to influence political and spiritual matters
What is the Medieval Church?
This is another name known for the Black Death.
What is the Bubonic Plague?
Henry II introduced these body of people which is still seen and utilized in the judicial system today.
What are juries?
These two groups of people nursed sick, assisted poor, opened schools, and copied books (Preserved learning – very important!!)
Who are monks/nuns?
This group of people were bound to place they were born and everything they produced belonged to their lord.
Who are serfs?
Over the next 300 years, Christians fought Muslim armies in this many Crusades or "Holy Wars"
What is 9?
The population of Europe that was killed off by the Black Death.
What is 1/3?
This royal charter of rights agreed to by King John of England in 1215 established that everyone, including the king, was subject to the law.
What is the Magna Carta?
This occurred in 1054 and created two separate churches: The Pope was in charge of the Western Roman Catholic Church and the Emperor and Patriarch were in charge of Eastern Orthodox Church.
What is the Great Schism?
This is another word for land offered to vassals.
What is a fief?
These two punishments were put in place for not following Canon Law.
What is excommunication or interdiction?
In 1347, a trade ship arrived in Italy carrying these plague-infested animals with fleas.
What are rats?
This person went to war with France and lost Normandy, were cruel, tried to squeeze money from subjects, threatened right to self-government, and raised taxes to all-time high.
Who is King John?
This was the most splendid church in the Christian World and was rebuilt by a Byzantine emperor.
What is the Hagia Sophia?
This was the way in which people survived- it was an economic system within feudalism and was centered around a lord's self-sufficient estate called a manor.
What is the manorial system?
This prominent leader from England led the 3rd Crusade.
Who is Richard the Lion-Hearted?
These are some of the "cures" for the Black Death.
What is prayer, bathing in urine, isolation, leeches, placing dead animals in homes, and pomanders.
The medieval agricultural technique that divided farmland into three plots to allow for a crop rotation of two different crops and one fallow field per year.
What is the three-field system?
Legal experts established this unified law code of nearly 5,000 laws (marriage, slavery, property, women’s rights, crimes)
What is Justinian’s Code
Code of Chivalry demanded that a knight fight bravely in defense of these three masters.
Who are his Feudal lord, his God, and chosen lady?
This person asked for help fighting the Muslim Turks which led to the start of the Crusades.
Who is Byzantine Emperor Alexius?
France most likely suffered the most casualties from the Black Death and had this percent of population decline.
What is 37%?
This group of people controlled a small area of France, including Paris, and had weak rulers at first but eventually expanded control beyond Paris.
Who is the Capet family?