Middle Ages Life
Whereas peasants were able to move about mostly freely, these people were tied to the land.
What are serfs?
This is the social system of the Middle Ages.
What is Feudalism?
These two religions fought each other during the Crusades.
What are Christianity and Islam?
This animal was most responsible for spreading the Black Death.
What is the rat?
This animal was most important to the Mongols' success.
What is the horse?
The earliest medieval kings could be described as these, the most successful fighting leaders.
What are warlords?
The term for land given to someone to control in exchange for service and loyalty.
What is a fief?
This person called for the First Crusade.
Who is Pope Urban II?
These fractions represent historians' estimates of the death toll of the Black Death as a share of total population.
What is 1/3 to 1/2?
This environmental phenomenon caused the Mongols to spread south into China and westward into Asia and Eastern Europe.
What is climate change?
These were the major 2 stabilizing forces during the Middle Ages.
What are kingdoms and religion (Christianity)?
Feudal vassals had to swear this, an official oath of loyalty, to get land.
What is fealty?
The Crusades were fought over control of this city and its surrounding region.
What is Jerusalem?
The Black Death first struck Europe in this year.
What is 1347?
Jani Beg catapulting plague-infested bodies over city walls is an example of this style of warfare.
What is biological/ biochemical warfare?
This was the most important aspect of most people's lives in the Middle Ages.
What is religion?
Manors were defined by their ability to remain this two word term.
What is self sufficient or self-reliant?
This later crusade saw many young Europeans sent off to the Holy Land due to the belief that they were the purest European Christians.
What is the Children's Crusade?
The Black Death was primarily spread along these, trails whereupon cultures tended to interact.
What are trade routes?
What are gunpowder, paper, and printing?
Although missionaries spread religion in a mobile fashion, monks spread it from their stationary homes in these places.
What is a monastery?
These two events helped to phase out the feudal system in Europe as the Middle Ages wore on.
What are the Crusades and the Black Death?
This Muslim leader made a deal with English leader King Richard the Lionheart during the 3rd Crusade.
Who is Saladin?
Many Jews were blamed and persecuted for the Black Death, a further historical example of this term.
What is anti-Semitism?
This man was the most famous leader of the Mongols.
Who is Genghis Khan?