Vocabulary
A land grant given by a lord to a vassal in exchange for loyalty and service.
What is a Fief?
What is Charles the Great?
After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, Europe was plunged into what was known as this time period.
What is the Dark Ages?
The leader of the Roman Catholic Church.
Who is the Pope?
A code of conduct for knights, emphasizing bravery, honor, and respect for women and the weak.
What is chivalry?
A pandemic of bubonic plague that swept through Europe in the 14th century, causing millions of deaths.
What is the Black Death?
The Barbarians were of this decent.
What were German?
The system Otto the Great created to stabilize his rule.
What is the Ottonian Church System of the Reich?
The time period during the years 500-1500 AD.
What is the Middle Ages?
The language of the Roman Catholic Church.
What is Latin?
A mounted warrior who served a lord in exchange for land and protection.
What is a knight?
This was the result of decreased literacy and forgotten culture in Western Europe.
What is the loss of Greco-Roman culture in Western Europe?
Christians who wanted to ban icons.
What is an Iconoclast?
This helped Charlemagne expand his empire.
What is the Catholic Church?
William the Conqueror crowned king of England on this date.
When was December 25, 1066?
The MAIN SIMILARITY between Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy.
What is the belief in Christ?
The political system of the Middle Ages, based on land ownership and loyalty, where local lords held power and peasants worked the land
What is Feudalism?
The proportion of the affected population was killed by the Black Death.
What is about 50%?
An economic system in which lords owned estates and peasants worked the land in exchange for protection and basic needs.
What is Manorialism?
The first pope appointed by Otto I after the deposition of John XII.
Who is Pope Leo VIII?
This battle was fought on October 14, 1066.
What is the Battle of Hastings?
A physical object, often a painting or sculpture, representing a religious figure or concept, used for worship and devotion
King, Priests, Nobles, Knights, Peasants
What is the correct order of descending power in European Feudalism?
This language was formed as a result of the Muslim conquest of Iberia.
What is Spanish?
A person who holds beliefs that go against the established doctrines of the church.
What is a heretic?
This made Charlemagne the greatest medieval king.
What is he established an organized empire?
The year the Domesday Book was commissioned.
What is 1085?
The name for the official split of the Christian Church between the East and the West.
What is the Great Schism?
The difference between a serf and a knight.
What is Serfs were bound to the land and couldn't leave without the lord’s permission, while peasants were free but still worked the land?
The cause of the Black Death.
What is Bubonic plague bacterium?
A comprehensive survey of land and property ownership in England, commissioned by William the Conqueror.
What was the Domesday Book?
The empire that Charlemagne ruled.
What is the Frankish Empire?
On this date, Otto I was elected king of the German Dukes.
What is August 7, 936?
The religion the Germanic Kingdoms converted to.
What is Christianity?
A relationship where the peasant worked the land for the noble in exchange for protection and shelter.
What is the relationship between a peasant and a noble?