Europe In The Middle Ages

Question 1

What was the lord’s main duty toward the people who pledged loyalty to him?

Answer 1

He protected them and their land

Question 2

What did most peasants need the lord’s permission to do?

Answer 2

Marry or leave the manor

Question 3

What is one reason that the Church was so powerful during medieval times?

Answer 3

It made laws and set up courts to uphold them

Question 4

What happened to peasants who escaped to a city and lived there for a year and a day?

Answer 4

They became free

Question 5

How was life in the towns different from life on the manor?

Answer 5

In the towns, people exchanged goods and services for money.

Question 6

Why is the Holy Day important?

Answer 6

It is sacred to three of the world’s great religions.

Question 7

Who were the first Christians to fight the Muslims for the Holy Land?

Answer 7

Common people led by Peter the Hermit

Question 8

What did kings and popes often disagree on?

Answer 8

Who should select church officials called bishops

Question 9

Under the system of feudalism, each person was loyal to whom?

Answer 9

Those who had more land and wealth

Question 10

What was a lord’s main duty toward the people who pledged loyalty to him?

Answer 10

He had to protect them and their lands

Question 11

During the Middle Ages, the largest and most powerful religion in Western Europe was what?

Answer 11

Roman Catholic Church

Question 12

How were peasants able to improve their standard of living by doing what?

Answer 12

Farming the lord’s fields

Question 13

What was one problem medieval cities faced?

Answer 13

Crowded and unhealthy conditions

Question 14

Why did Christians fight the Muslims?

Answer 14

In order to reopen the Holy Land to Christian pilgrims

Question 15

What was one thing that helped trade grow during the Midlle Ages?

Answer 15

The Crusades

Question 16

Who fought in the Hundred Years’ War?

Answer 16

France and England

Question 17

Why did the Pope mount the Crusades?

Answer 17

To take back Jerusalem

Question 18

What were the Crusades?

Answer 18

Wars for the cross

Question 19

Who had possession of the Holy Land that prompted the Pope to mount a Crusade?

Answer 19

The Muslims

Question 20

Who led the People’s Crusade?

Answer 20

Peter the Hermit

Question 21

Who was the great Muslim leader of the Third Crusade?

Answer 21

Saladin

Question 22

What is another term for troubadour?

Answer 22

Minstrel

Question 23

When did the Middle Ages begin?

Answer 23

476

Question 24

What was the event that started the Middle Ages?

Answer 24

The fall of Rome

Question 25

What does Charlemagne mean?

Answer 25

Charles the Great

Question 26

What was the MOST remarkable thing about him?

Answer 26

He loved learning

Question 27

What was it called when Vikings went raiding and trading?

Answer 27

A Viking

Question 28

What is the Latin term for Middle Ages?

Answer 28

Medieval

Question 29

Who was the Norman Duke who became king of England?

Answer 29

William the Conquerer

Question 30

What was the system of government in Europe at this time?

Answer 30

Feudalism

Question 31

What were/are the great big churches called?

Answer 31

Cathedrals

Question 32

What were the associations called that people of the same work joined?

Answer 32

Guilds

Question 33

What was the terrible disease that wiped out over 1/3 of Europe's population?

Answer 33

Black Death/bubonic plague

Question 34

What was a knight's honorable code of conduct called?

Answer 34

Chivalry

Question 35

What is another word for mintsrel

Answer 35

Troubadour

Question 36

What was the Latin term for cross?

Answer 36

Crux

Question 37

What had happened to the Holy Land that started the Crusades?

Answer 37

Muslim Turks took the Holy Land

Question 38

What was the first group to go, and who were the men who led it?

Answer 38

Regular people Peter the Hermit Walter the Pennyless

Question 39

Who was the Muslim leader?

Answer 39

Saladin

Question 40

What was the saddest Crusade?

Answer 40

Children's Crusade

Question 41

List three results of the Crusades that happened afterwards in Europe.

Answer 41

- brought new ideas - encouraged use of money - brought new technology

Question 42

Who were the three European kings who were commanded by the Pope to lead the 3rd Crusade?

Answer 42

Fredrick I Phillip II Richard I

Question 43

What is the process called when small communities and kingdoms are combined to make one very large entity?

Answer 43

Nation building

Question 44

Who was the English king that the nobles were so mad at?

Answer 44

King John

Question 45

Why were they mad at him?

Answer 45

He wanted money from them and he wanted soldiers to build an army and he wanted to be much more powerful than the nobles

Question 46

What was the document that limited the king's power over the nobles?

Answer 46

Manga Carta

Question 47

What is the major significance To US regarding that document?

Answer 47

The Magna Carta was the basis of the US Constitution

Question 48

List two reasons why the feudal system began to decline.

Answer 48

- Growth of trade and towns | - Crusades weakened the nobles

Question 49

What war did the English king Edward III begin?

Answer 49

Hundred Year's War

Question 50

Who was the young girl who lead the French troops at Orleans?

Answer 50

Joan of Arc

Question 51

How did the Magna Carta actually translate?

Answer 51

Great Charter

Question 52

Besides the nobles, who else was mad at King John? Why?

Answer 52

Church | John wanted to select the bishop