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Ye Olde Middle Ages
Ye Olde Middle Ages Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| This person is the head of the Roman Catholic Church | Pope |
| The economic system that was used throughout Europe during the Middle Ages | Manorialism |
| What commodity was given to vassals in exchange for military service? | Land |
| A judgement of heresy by the church | Inquisition |
| King of the Franks or Charles the Great | Charlemagne |
| After the Crusades, Europeans brought back these things from the Middle East | Culture and Technology |
| A poor person who lives on a manor and farms the same plot of land for the rest of his life | Serf |
| Getting removed from the church | Excommunication |
| The Knight's code of ethics | Chivalry |
| This was the "glue" of society. It was the most important part of everyone's life. | The church |
| A disease carried by the fleas on rats that killed nearly one third of all Europeans | The Bubonic Plague |
| In which battle in 1066 did William the Conquerer lead his Norman troops to victory over the Anglo-Saxons? | The Battle of Hastings |
| Why was Pope Urban II important? | He called for the first Crusade in 1095 |
| What is the monastic system? | School for monks |
| How did people pay their tithe in the Middle Ages? | They used their crops |
| The type of government that most people followed during the Middle Ages | Feudalism |
| The fall of the Roman Empire lead to the | Dark Ages |
| The style of architecture that flourished during the high and late medieval periods | Gothic Architecture |
| A series of Holy Wars fought between Christian Europeans and Muslims from the Middle East | The Crusades |
| Leader of the Third Crusade | Richard the Lion-Hearted |
| A "rebirth" of learning in Europe | Renaissance |
| Headed by Justinian, this empire was the eastern portion of the Roman Empire | The Byzantine Empire |
| A religious community of men | Clergy |
| After the Crusades, why did the middle class grow in Europe? | Trade increased between Europeans and Middle Easterners |
| The process of cultures blending together and trading ideas and goods. | Cultural Diffusion |
| The local, common language used by people in the Middle Ages? | Vernacular |
| This war, fought over the French throne, basically brought feudalism to an end | 100 year's war |
| A development in Europe towards the end of the Middle Ages that brought about a new desire for trade and manufactured goods | Commercial Revolution |
| The Muslim leader who fought in the Crusades | Saladin |
| This occurred in 1054 which caused the church to form two sects of Christianity | The Great Schism |
| This man influenced new Christian thinkers. | Thomas Aquinas |
| This farming system helped farmers in the middle ages | 3 field system |
| Who paid for Christopher Columbus' voyages to the New World | Ferdinand and Isabella |
| What is a burgher? | A medieval merchant |
| What is the Magna Carta? | A document signed by King John of England in 1215 that limited the power of the King and gave the common people a say in government. |
| What is simony? | The selling of positions in the church. |
| When was the fall of the Roman Empire? | 476 |