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Kings
Queens
Lords
Knights
Peasants
100
Who was the cruel Hun who spared destroying Rome?
Attila the Hun
100
How were books make in the Middle Ages?
They were copied by hand
100
Which farming system helped the soil recover from one year to the next?
Three-field
100
Which major event happened in 1066?
William of Normandy won the Battle of Hastings
100
What is the Magna Carta?
A document that says the king must obey certain laws.
200
A.D. 476What year did the Roman Empire come to an end?
A.D. 476
200
In A.D. 800, who became the first Roman emperor since 476?
Charlemagne
200
What was the set of rules for knights called?
The Code of Chivalry
200
What was the Domesday Book?
A list of people who lived in England and the taxes they owe
200
All classes of people except whom were represented in the first Parliament?
Serfs
300
Why were the Middle Ages called the Dark Ages?
Why were the Middle Ages called the Dark Ages? Because people forgot things that were known by Greeks and Romans, not a lot of learning took place
300
What is the name of the system of government in which land is exchanged for loyalty and services?
Feudalism
300
By the end of the Middle Ages, kings had more power and who had less power?
Nobles
300
What did Henry II want to change about the legal system?
Trial by jury
300
The Hundred Years' War took place between which two countries?
England and France
400
Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox The Christian Church in the Eastern and Western Roman empires split into which two groups?
Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox
400
Order from highest to lowest in society: knights, serfs, lord, peasant
Lord, knight, peasant, serf
400
What is a guild?
A group of people who made rules for operating their type of business in a city
400
Who was Thomas Becket?
Archbishop of Canterbury under Henry II
400
Who is the French woman that led her nation to victory in the Hundred Years' War?
Joan of Arc
500
Who wanted monks to find God in useful work?
St. Benedict
500
Who had to work in the lord's fields as well as their own?
Serfs
500
What European nun said that all men and women are equal in God's eyes?
Hildegard of Bingen
500
While King Richard was away from England, his mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine, did what?
Ruled England
500
What was the Black Death?
A plague