Question | Answer |
serf | a person who lived on feudal land and farmed it
were protected by the lords |
noble | high ranking social lands
wealthy land owners |
Middle Ages | a period in Europe from about 500AD to 1500
Began after Roman empire |
Vassal | a person who held land from a lord or superior |
dubbing | a ceremony to make a squire a knight |
knight | a feudal warrior trained and prepared on horseback |
manor | it was a farming estate that included houses |
feudalism | a social, political and economic system used in the middle ages as their social class system |
crusades | the holy wars |
guild | a group of craftspeople or merchants who are united by a common interest |
chivalry | a knight code of behavior |
page | a boy around 7 years old that learned to ride a horse to read and write and many other things |
Muslim | a believer in Islam |
Squire | the stage after a page of becoming a knight |
missionary | teacher of religion |
what are the three major rivers in Europe | Rhine, Volga, Danube |
what are the parts in the feudal system? from top to bottom | monarch, lords, knights, serfs or peasants |
why did the people stay on the manors | it met all of the needs, lord protected the people |
what is the magna Carta | contained 63 clauses
stated that no freeman could be imprisoned, except by law |
the crusades were....... | wars fought to regain the holy land |
the crusades were fought between | Christians and Muslims |
why did the black plague spread quickly | they had no vaccinations for it |
how many percent of people died from the plague? | 25-33% |
name three people who belong to a guild | baker tailor weaver |
in which 2 regions would you fins europe farms | north european plains and northeast mountains |
what was the system of government in the middle ages | feudalism |
first step of knighthood | a boy at age seven is a page and learns to ride a horse and to hunt |
next step of knighthood | at age fourteen the page becomes a squire and is always at his lords side ready to assist him then the night before becoming a knight he prays then the day of to become a knight you need the touch of a blade on the shoulder |
last stage of a knight | he had is own armor weapons |
the 4 parts of a manor | farmland, meadow land, waste land, and the village. |
monarchs | highest ranking |
lords | respected the monarch in return the monarch granted the lord an estate |
knights | said that they would give their life up for other people |
serf | lived on land and farmed it slept in a mud brick building |
the _________helped to keep track of people and property | Domesday Book |
The ________ from present day Norway, Denmark, and Sweden invaded the holy Roman Empire. One of their strongest leaders was___________. | Vikings, William the Conqueror |
_________ was crowned ruler of England in 1199. | King John |