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middle ages bingo
cards for a bingo review game over the middle ages
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| King of the Franks who conquered present day France and Germany, he converted to Christianity | Clovis |
| A religion begun in Arabia in 632 | Islam |
| A Frankish warrior, grandson of Charles Martel, he was crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Leo III | Charlemagne |
| Schola who established a school at AAchen | Alcuin |
| This divided up Charlemagnes Empire after his death | Treaty of Verdun |
| Raiders from Scandanavia who plundered Europe causing many deaths | Vikings |
| A lesser Lord who gets land in exchange for loyalty, taxes and knights | Vassal |
| the land that a vassal gets is called this | Fief |
| A mounted warrior in armor during the middle ages | knight |
| the code of conduct that governed knights. It required tthem to be brave, loyal and true | Chivalry |
| wandering poets and singers | troubadors |
| the lords estate, the houses, the land and the serfs who work on it | manor |
| a peasant farmer who is tied to the land and cannot leave the manor is called this. He gets protection in exchange for his labor | serf |
| a loosely organized system of rule in which powerful local lords divide their landholdings among lesser lords in exchange for service and loyalty | feudalism |
| mock battle where knights could practice their fighting skills | tournament |
| the sacred rites of the church | sacraments |
| the ten percent tax paid to the church | tithe |
| when something is concerned with the actions in this world, not heaven it is called this | secular |
| the body of laws that the Church developed along with it's own courts | canon law |
| people who have been banned from the church and cannot get the sacraments | excommunicated |
| when a whole town or nation has been excommunicated its called this | interdict |
| the prectice of selling jobs in the church is called this | simony |
| monks who live in monasteries are called this | friars |
| predjudice against Jews is called this | antisemitism |
| a written document that spelled out the rights and priveleges of a medieval town | charter |
| the latin word for "middle" as in the middle ages | medieval |
| money used for investment is often called this | capital |
| paper that was used LIKE money, but was just a promise to pay was called this . It meant that you did not have to carry gold coins around | Bill of Exchange |
| when you lend money and collect interest it's called | usury |
| salaried workers who were part of guilds were called | journeymen |
| Associations of merchants and artisans were called this | guilds |
| pesants who who rented the land rather than pay in labor like serfs were called | tenant farmers |
| The most powerful of the Germanic tribes after the fall of Rome were the | Franks |