Who?
What?
Where?
When?
Why?
100

Who held power and authority over kings and queens? 

What is the Catholic Church/Who is the Pope

100

What is FEUDALISM?  

What is a system in which people were given land and protection by people of higher rank, and worked and fought for them in return

100

Where did Saint Joan of Arc live?

What is France

100

What year did the Middle Ages begin?

What is 476 AD.

100

Why did Pope Urban II order the Crusades? 

What is to regain control of Jerusalem (Holy City)

200

Who ordered the first Crusade?

Who is Pope Urban II

200

The fall of what empire started the Middle Ages?

What is the Western Roman Empire

200

What city is important to Christians, Muslims and Jews?

What is Jerusalem

200

When was the Magna Carta written?

What is 1215

200

Why was King John I of England excommunicated from the Catholic Church?

King John I was angry over the newly appointed Archbishop of Canterbury and sought to remove him by overpowering the Pope.

300

Who won the first Crusade?

Who were the Christans

300

What was something that peasant women could do that noble women couldn’t?

What is marry for love (Nobel women viewed as bargaining chip to increase family wealth by marriage)

300

Where did the Black Death originate from? 

What is Asia Minor

300

What year did the Great Schism take place?

What is 1054

300

Why did so many agree to fight in the Crusades? 

 Pope Urban II offered absolution from sins in exchange for fighting against the Muslims. 

400

who wrote the Magna Carta?

Who was King John I

400

What was the the first document to put into writing the principle that the king and his government was not above the law called?

What is the Magna Carta

400

What was the central place of every village?

What was the Church

400

When did the last crusade take place? 

What is 1204

400

Why did the Eastern and Western Catholic Church spilt? 

What is religious disagreements and political disputes (Papal supremacy, Eucharist)

500

Who wrote a universal law code, reconquered the Western Roman Empire and, built the Hagia Sophia Cathedral

Who was Justinian

500

What is the appointment of religious officials by secular authorities (princes) called?

Lay Investiture

500

Where did gothic Churches originate (architectural style)?

What is France

500

When did the Middle Ages end?

What is 1500 AD.

500

Why did the Roman Empire collapse in 476 AD? 

Conquered by Vikings and Germanic Tribes