The Middle Ages
The Spread of Christianity and Islam
Life in the Middle Ages
Feudalism
Potpourri
100

The length of time the Middle Ages lasted. 

What is 800 years?
100

The technique Charlemagne used to spread Christianity.

What is by the sword?

100

Fleas on rats help spread this pandemic which killed 33% of Europe's population.

What is the Black Plague?

100

Excluding the Church, who was at the very top of Pyramid of Feudalism, who was the ruler who claimed ownership of the lands?

King

100

The code of conduct that a knight was expected to live by during the Middle Ages.

What is chivalry?

200

A large piece of land owned by a lord during the Middle Ages.

What is a manor?

200

Founder of Islam.

Who is Muhammad?

200

A peasant who was tied to the manor and paid taxes to the Lord in the form of crops, in return, he/she received food, shelter, and protection

What is a serf?

200
The King often granted the land to Important _______ who pledged their loyalty by swearing to serve and protect the king.
Lord
200

One advantage of the invention of this, is that it rendered body armor useless. 

What is the longbow?

300

This was the  Lord’s main duties toward the people that pledged allegiance to them.

What is to protect them and their land?

300

DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!

The European Country that Muslims invaded and in 710, and eventually driven out by the year 1491.

What is Spain?

300

Knights began training at age ___________, and became a full Knight by age ___________.

What is 7 and 21?

300
A local Servant who worked on Feudal lands or manors and was "bound to the soil".
Serf
300

This new invention blasted holes in castle walls.

What are canons?


400

The beginning of the Dark or Middle Ages started with this event.

What is the collapse of the Western Roman Empire?

400

Both Christianity and Islam share this.

What is the belief in one God (monotheism)?

400

DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!!

The Hundred Years War was between these two countries.

What is France and England?

400

What eventually brought an end to Feudalism?

The Crusades between Christians and Muslims

400

With the signing of this, King John had to recognized that Britons had certain rights that could not be infringed on or taken away.

What is the Magna Carta?

500

This institution restored order to Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire.

What is the Roman Catholic Churc?

500

Both Monks and Nuns lived in these in which they learned and studied religious texts, sometimes committing to a vow of silence.

What are monestaries?

500

A woman peasant who convinced King Charles the VII that she should lead an army to fight France. Later burned at the stake.

Who is Joan of Arc?

500

___________ was an economic system based on the granting of land in exchange for loyalty or service. *Double Jeopardy*

Feudalism

500
The one entity that everyone in the Middle Ages and under Feudalism social scale recognized was the authority over everyone. 

What is the Pope or the Roman Catholic Church?