It's all Arabic to me
El Amin
What is the truthful or honest one?
The feudal system was based on a series of agreements between these two parties
What are lords and vassals?
Called for the first Crusdae
Who is Pope Urban II
Travel from the east brought back bubonic plague which received this ominous nicknamed because of the color it turned the skin
What is black death?
Oct. 10, 732. Charles "the Hammer" Marteau slams back the Saracens in this history defining battle
What is Tours/Poitiers?
artifact from the past that has some tie to religion and may have some mysticism surrounding it
What is a relic?
Wrote the "Divine Comedy"
Who is Dante?
Hegira
What is the flight of the prophet?
This person reigns at the top of the feudal system
what was the king?
Led the Crusaders in the third Crusade
Who was Richard the Lionheart?
This major effect of the crusade is the French word for rebirth
What is the Renaissance?
May 30, 1431. She was burned at the stake for being a crossdressing heretic
payment to the church that would absolve someone of their sins, they were a major motivation for fighting in the Crusades
what was an indulgence?
Greatest Philosopher of the Middle Ages
Who was St. Thomas Aquinas?
actual Jeopardy ?
The National Geographic documentary "Inside Mecca" focusses on the personal stories of this pilgrimage.
What is the Hajj?
these people were figuratively tied to their land (they literally never left)
What were serfs?
Actual Jeopardy ?
This nemesis of the Crusaders died in 1193, having ruled Egypt and Yemen
Who is Saladin?
Endless tolls and robbers made the search for these of maximum importance following the revitalization of commerce after the crusades.
what are trade routes?
actual jeopardy ?
William's Norman troops met Harold's Anglo-Saxon army in the decisive battle of this coastal town on Oct. 14, 1066
What is the battle/town of Hastings?
from the french word for horse rider, this was the unwritten Medieval code of ethics
what was Chivalry?
Anglo-Saxon (German/British) equivalent of Gilgamesh who fought monsters to save the kingdom
Who was Beowulf?
Jihad
what is holy war or internal struggle?
land a lord would give a vassal in order to secure his loyalty, service, production, and taxes
what is a fief?
Wars fought over the control of Jerusalem are called this
what are Crusades?
After the crusades a decline in feudalism led to the rise of these which still exist in Europe today.
What are nation states?
Actual Jeopardy ?
In the early 900s Rollo the Viking founded this Duchy in France from which England was conquered 150 years later.
where is Normandy?
when two parties exchange things where each benefit, the relationship is this in nature
what is reciprocal?
First European to discover America
Who was Leif Erikson?
a subset in math in which letters and other general symbols are used to represent numbers and quantities in formulae and equations
What is Algebra?
These horse riding mounted fortresses, came from the upperclass, and were expected to follow the Chivalric code. They fought for kings and nobles, protected the innocent.
What were knights?
He willed the first Crusaders to victory by finding the lance that pierced Jesus' side.
Who was Peter Bartholomew?
Actual Jeopardy ?
Shut down after just 6 shows, "into the Light" is about a physicist seeking the truth about this fabled burial cloth of Jesus
What is the Shroud of Turin?
1298. This famous pair get to writing from behind bars
Who are Marco Polo and Rustichello de Pisa?
The Islamic equivalent of the Bible
what is the Koran?
Actual Jeopardy ?
Swiped from the Holy Land, the reputed head of this decapitated saint is on display on a silver plate at Amiens Cathedral
Who is St. John the Baptist?
This Arabic words means submission, as in submitting yourself to God
What is Islam?
Feudalism became the "go-to" social hierarchy after the fall of Rome because threats became more this
what is localized?
The first crusade stalled at this giant walled city for almost a year as back to back sieges occurred.
Where is Antioch?
Because so many knights, lords and peasants left their homes to fight in crusades a decline in this system came about as power returned to kings
What is Feudalism?
1492 is often seen as the end of the Middle Ages because these two events occurred.
What is Columbus discovered America & The Muslims are pushed out of Spain and Europe for good?
Took charge of France and ran the kingdom while the “Do-nothing” Merovingian kings did nothing. Pepin for example
What is a Mayor of the Palace?
Name 3 Germanic languages and 3 Romantic languages and one combination of the two.
German, Icelandic, Flemish, Swedish, Norwegian
Romanian, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French
English