Rise Of Feudalism
A political and social system based on land ownership and loyalty and used in Europe during medieval times.
What is feudalism?
A deadly disease that killed millions of Europeans especially peasants leading to the decline of feudalism.
Black Death
Bubonic Plague
Before it became the Byzantine Empire, it was the ____.
Eastern Roman Empire
The person who created a source.
author
For it to work, feudalism relied on _____ obligations. (I scratch your back, you scratch mine)
mutual
True Or False
Barbarian invasions were the primary reason for the decline of feudalism in western Europe.
False. That was a reason for the fall of the western Roman Empire.
What was the capital city of the eastern Roman Empire after it was moved by Emperor Constantine?
Constantinople
The person or group that an author created the source for
audience
What event led to instability, chaos, violence, and warfare in western Europe?
Fall of Western Roman Empire
The increase of this led to peasants leaving their manors and the eventual decline of feudalism.
Trade
Growth of Cities
A famous law code ordered by Emperor Justinian to make the empires laws clear, fair, and easy to understand.
Justinian's Code
a source created by someone who witnessed and/or was alive at the time of the event
primary source
A piece of land given to a vassal by a lord.
Fief
Why did kings rely less and less on lords and knights leading to the decline of feudalism?
Kings created and paid their own armies.
What was the name of the event in which the Roman Catholic Church split in two?
The Great Schism
A source created much later on by somebody who did not live through or experience the event.
secondary source
What is a vassal?
A person who is given land by a lord.
Or
Knight (Most vassals were knights.)
True or False
The Black Death led to the decline of feudalism because it gave the surviving peasants the power to demand wages from the lords and king.
True
What was the name of the new church that became the center of religious life in the Byzantine Empire?
Eastern Orthodox Church
After identify the audience of the source, what will the exam questions require you to do with that information.
Explain how the audience impacted what the author included.
And/Or
Explain how the author presented the information.