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Early Middle Ages Flashcards

1
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What continent is Europe on?

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Eurasia.

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What is a topography map?

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A map that shows the elevation of the land.

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What is the boundary between Europe and Asia?

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The Ural mountains.

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What is the flat area in the middle of Europe called?

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The European plain.

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What features are in the European plain?

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Many trees and many rivers.

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What was life like in the southern part of Europe?

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What people live near the coast, it was warmer and there are many fishermen because of the peninsula. Natural protection was obtained by the alps.

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What was life like in the northern part of Europe?

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People lived further from the sea, they use the numerous rivers to get around and to reach the sea. Many towns developed on rivers and example is Paris and are many Flat fields for preforming.

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What was the only bad thing about living in the northern part of Europe?

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They did not have good protection because it was so flat and were frequently invaded.

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What is latitude?

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The imaginary horizontal lines crisscrossing the earth.

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What is longitude?

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The vertical imaginary lines crisscrossing the earth.

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Name the four reasons Christianity spread through the Roman Empire.

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Paul wrote Epistles
Roman roads
Deciples
Constantine

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Who are missionaries?

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People to travel to try to convert others to their religion.

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To what three countries did the pope send missionaries to?

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Britain, Spain, and France

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Who is a famous missionary and what did he do?

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Saint Patrick. He was a Roman citizen who converted the people of Ireland to Christianity

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Who are monks?

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Religious man who lived apart from society and in isolated communities called monasteries.

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What did monks do?

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Spent their time in prayer, work, and in meditation. If they weren’t doing that, they were running schools copying books and collecting writings from ancient Greece and Rome.

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True or false, monks are forced to follow strict rules about how to live?

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True.

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18
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What did the monks rules include?

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How to eat, dress, pray, and live.

19
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Who was Charlemagne the leader of?

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The Franks.

⭐️ Side note: if you don’t know who they ruled just say the Franks. If they were Muslim, it was the Muslim Turks.⭐️

20
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What did Charlemagne do?

A

Built up a strong empire in present-day France and Germany, he was a Christian and fought many battles with the neighbors and conquered them all. He was crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Leo the third and I helped the European people realize that they’re all Europeans, not individual tribes. He told him that Christianity connected them and spread it even more.

21
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What marked the beginning of the middle ages or medieval Europe?

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When after the fall of Rome no one knew who was really the ruler and Europe was divided into many small kingdoms.

22
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Why were the middle ages called the “middle” ages?

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Because it falls between ancient and modern times.

23
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Why was in the middle ages called “medieval Europe”

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Medieval means middle in Latin.

24
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Finish this sentence: feudalism was created by the _____ in the 1000s

A

The Franks.

25
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Who was William the conqueror?

A

A French noble who declared war on Britain, won, created feudalism and became king of England

26
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How did William the Conqueror create feudalism?

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With the help of his knights he defeated the English king and called himself king then he became known as William the conqueror. Gave large fiefs to the people who helped him.

27
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What is manorialism?

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The economical system of the middle ages where the economy is centered around the mannor.

28
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True or false, and manorialism the Manor is not self-sufficient?

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False, people grew their own crops and made nearly everything they did on the matter including the clothes and all their wood.

29
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True or false, in the Middle Ages it did not matter what class women were in, they were always lower than men?

A

True, even though the queen was the highest woman in power, she still was less than a man.

30
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What did woman mainly have to do in the middle ages?

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How do to obey the wishes of their father or husband.

31
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What would happen if a woman’s husband died and he owned an estate?

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The sun received control the estate and it was his choice if his mother should still live there or not.

32
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When women married in the Middle Ages?

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Around 13 or 16 or when they came of age

33
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Why were women married so early in the middle ages?

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If they had children when they were older, they had a higher risk of dying during childbirth.

34
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What did noblewomen do?

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Directed their servants of the Manor when their husbands were gone

35
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What did serf women do in the middle ages?

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Helped provide for their family.

36
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What was marriage like in the middle ages?

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A business deal.

37
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What is the geography of Europe?

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One peninsula made up of smaller peninsulas.

38
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Explain feudalism.

A

A system of promises regarding land for loyalty.

39
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Name the steps of feudalism in Europe.

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King to lord to night to serf.

40
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What was a lord supposed to do?

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Run the Manor, serve as judge and jury, and protect the Kings land

41
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What was a knight supposed to do?

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Protect the manner, hope the Lord and Lady, and pay for their first daughter’s wedding.

42
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What was a serf supposed to do?

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The serf was loyal to his land only and worked it until he died

43
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Who is the vassal to a king?

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A lord and a knight

44
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True or false, a knight can never leave his lord?

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False, if a knight is treated badly he can leave.

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