The Middle Ages Chapter 14
The Middle Ages
Chapter 14
The Feudal System
Life in Europe
The Church
People we
Should Know
Going on a Trip
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The Feudal System 100
Name 3 buildings you might find on a manor
Answer: Manor House, mill, barn, peasants houses, bakery
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The Feudal System 200
What did a “vassal” have to do for a “Lord”?
Answer: Give taxes (money, crops,animals), fight against other lords
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The Feudal System 300
Who did the fighting in the Feudal system?
Answer: Knights
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The Feudal System 400
Whas was the Lord’s role in the Feudal system?
Answer: To defend his vassals and peasants
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The Feudal System 500
How could a serf get his freedom?
Answer: Buy it, or escape for a year and a day
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Life in Europe 100
Which disease spread throughout Europe on fleas living on rats, killing 1/3 of all people in Europe
Answer: The “Black Death” or the Bubonic Plague
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Life in Europe 200
This war led both England and France to feel more like nations
Answer: The Hundred Years’ War
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Life in Europe 300
Answer: a traveling musician who spread tales of knights’ courage
What was a troubadour?
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Life in Europe 400
This document forced the king to give certain rights and freedoms to the nobles
Answer: The Magna Carta
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Life in Europe 500
Why did trade grow in Western Europe?
Answer: Europe became safer, the Church brought stability, and people could travel and trade more
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The Church 100
Why did so many people become Christians in Europe? (what did it offer?)
Answer: The promise of life after death and the punishment of the wicked
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The Church 200
Name 3 events where the Church was involved in everyday life
Answer: births, weddings, funerals
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The Church 300
What were monasteries and convents?
Answer: places where religious people went to live, pray, and study
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The Church 400
How did the Church have power in politics in the Middle Ages?
Answer: they made laws, could excommunicate kings, and they had money
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The Church 500
Over what issues did the Church struggle with Kings?
Answer: power: the ability to choose Bishops
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People We Should Know 100
The French peasant girl who inspired her people to fight the British
Answer: Joan of Arc
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People We Should Know 200
Who encouraged the first trip to the Holy Land?
Answer: Pope Urban the II
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People We Should Know 300
This Muslim leader fought off King Richard the Lionhearted and kept Jerusalem under Muslim control
Answer: Saladin
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People We Should Know 500
What king angered his nobles, leading to the signing of the Magna Carta?
Answer: King John
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People We Should Know 400
The people who held the Holy Land before Christian knights decided to take it back
Answer: The Seljuk Turks
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Going on a Trip 100
The military expedition against the Muslims was called________
Answer: The Crusades
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Going on a Trip 200
Which of the trips to the Holy Land was a victory for the Christians?
Answer: The First
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Going on a Trip 300
Why was the Holy Land important to Christians?
Answer: it was the place where all the events in the Bible took place
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Going on a Trip 400What products did returning
soldiers bring back to Europe?
Answer: Fruits, silks, spices,
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Going on a Trip 500What was the long-term benefit of
these expeditions to the Holy Land for the Europeans?
They learned science, math, astronomy, and began to trade with the East