The In Between
This event in 476 CE traditionally marks the beginning of the Middle Ages.
What is the Fall of the Western Roman Empire?
This Frankish leader defeated Muslim expansion at the Battle of Tours in 732 CE.
Who is Charles Martel?
This code of ideals required knights to fight bravely in defense of God, their lord, and their lady.
What is chivalry?
The Crusades were originally called in an effort to recapture this region from Muslim control.
What is the Holy Land?
These three major West African empires emerged during the Middle Ages.
What are Ghana, Mali, and Songhai?
The Middle Ages ended around this year, when both the Hundred Years’ War ended and Constantinople fell.
What is 1453 CE?
Known as the “Father of Europe,” this ruler reunited much of Western Europe.
Who is Charlemagne?
Written by Geoffrey Chaucer, this famous medieval work helped demonstrate the growth of literature among the common people.
What is The Canterbury Tales?
This Pope called for the First Crusade.
Who is Pope Urban II?
Unlike European feudalism, this group sat at the bottom of the Japanese Feudal pyramid for not contributing their own labor to their society.
Who are merchants?
Roman culture, Germanic customs, and this powerful institution all helped shape medieval Europe.
What is the Roman Catholic Church?
Charlemagne ruled the largest territory in Western Europe since the days of this earlier empire.
What is the Roman Empire?
This punishment meant being expelled from the Church and was considered extremely serious in medieval Europe.
What is excommunication?
This Muslim leader defeated Crusader forces and recaptured Jerusalem in 1187 CE.
Who is Saladin?
Ghana's economy became wealthy primarily through the trade of these two commodities.
What are gold and salt?
The three major social groups in medieval European society were those who fought, prayed, and did this.
What is work(ed)?
After Charlemagne's death, his grandsons divided his empire into three kingdoms through this 843 CE agreement.
What is the Treaty of Verdun?
In 1054, Christianity split into the Catholic Church in the West and this church in the East.
What is the Orthodox Church?
Although the Third Crusade failed to recapture Jerusalem, this English king negotiated a truce allowing Christian pilgrims to enter the city.
Who is Richard I, the "Lionheart"?
In Japanese feudalism, the emperor sat at the top of the hierarchy, but this military leader held the actual ruling power.
What is the Shogun?
A person who pledged loyalty and service in exchange for land was known as this.
What is a vassal?
Charlemagne was the greatest ruler of this Medieval Frankish dynasty.
What is the Carolingian dynasty?
The Concordat of Worms in 1122 overturned this practice, which allowed kings and nobles to appoint church officials and eventually became a source of conflict with the Church.
What is lay investiture?
The Fourth Crusade, which ended with Christian crusaders attacking and sacking Constantinople, was led by this Venetian noble.
Who is Doge Enrico Dandolo?
The fall of Edessa marked the cause for the Second Crusade, but European monarchs decided to lay siege to this Muslim controlled city instead.
What is Damascus?