Geography
This body of water separates continents. Making it the second largest ocean in the world.
What is the Atlantic Ocean
What is the name for a community where monks live, study, and pray?
What is a monastery?
What group of people did Charlemagne lead?
Who were the Franks?
In feudalism, land was traded in exchange for what?
What is loyalty or military service?
What year was the Battle of Hastings?
What is 1066?
This body of water is SOUTH of Italy and NORTH of Africa.
What is the Mediterranean Sea
What important job did monks do to preserve knowledge?
What is copying books by hand?
What year was Charlemagne crowned Holy Roman Emperor?
What is 800 CE
What is the name of the large farming estate where peasants lived and worked?
What is a manor?
The "prize" for winning the battle of Hastings.
What is becoming the King of England
This mountain range is NORTH of the country: Italy
What is The Alps
Monasteries and monks had many conflicts with this group.
What are English Monarchs?
This religion was made the official religion of the Holy Roman Empire under Charlemagne.
What is Christianity (Catholicism)
People who were tied to the land were called...
what are Peasants/serfs
This legal right, strengthened by the Magna Carta, says that a group of citizens must decide if someone is guilty or innocent.
What is a trail by jury
This narrow strip of water separates the UK from the continent Europe
What is The English Channel
Monks living in Monasteries educated their members by...
Reading and teaching religious text
What system of loyalty and land did Charlemagne strengthen?
What is feudalism?
Describe the flow of the Feudalism triangle and what each "section" does.
- King gives land to the Nobles in exchange for loyalty
- The nobles provide land to knights for protection
- The knights offer protection to the nobles and Peasants
- The Peasants work the land and farm the crops.
What two cultures blended because of William’s rule?
What are French and English?
This large region of land is EAST of The Alps, and West of the Ural Mountains.
What is the North European Plain
What mountain range near Italy did monks cross while spreading Christianity?
What are the Alps?
When Charlemagne was crowned emperor by the Pope, it showed a partnership between what two major powers in Europe?
The Church and the monarchy
What major change weakened manorialism and led to the growth of towns and cities? HINT: This major change also spread religion...
What is the increase in trade?
Which document, signed in 1215, limited the king’s power and gave rights to English citizens?
What is the Magna Carta?