Middle Ages

Question 1

Visigoths

Answer 1

A Germanic tribe who stated in Spain before the Ostrogoths

Question 2

Ostrogoths

Answer 2

Another Germanic people, took control of Italy

Question 3

Vandals

Answer 3

A Germanic tribe who invaded and vandals Rome

Question 4

Franks

Answer 4

People who stayed on the European continent

Question 5

Clovis

Answer 5

A military leader who established the Frankish kingdom, and was a Christian convert

Question 6

Wergild

Answer 6

An idea of paying a fine based off your crime to someone

Question 7

Ordeal

Answer 7

An idea of proving guilt in Germanic law based on divine intervention (opposite logic of Salem trials)

Question 8

Bishopric

Answer 8

A group of parishes led by a bishop

Question 9

Popes

Answer 9

Bishops of Rome known as Peter’s successor

Question 10

Gregory 1

Answer 10

Aka Gregory the Great, strengthened the church

Question 11

Monk

Answer 11

A man who isolated himself to devote himself to God

Question 12

Monasticism

Answer 12

The practice of living life like a monk

Question 13

Saint Benedict

Answer 13

A person who wrote a set of rules for the monk community he founded

Question 14

Abbot

Answer 14

A person who led a community of monks, who they were expected to obey

Question 15

Missionaries

Answer 15

When a person goes out to preach their religoon

Question 16

Nuns

Answer 16

Women who live similar to monks

Question 17

Abbesses

Answer 17

A leader of a convent, usually a descendant of royal English houses

Question 18

Pépin

Answer 18

A man who took kingship for himself and his family

Question 19

Charlemagne

Answer 19

Aka Charles the Great, the Frankish king after Pépin, could unify using the church

Question 20

Missi dominici

Answer 20

Two men who ensured the Roman districts carried out the king’s wishes, set up by Charles

Question 21

Magyars

Answer 21

People from Western Asia who moved into Central Europe

Question 22

Muslims

Answer 22

People who came from Spain, and Africa and settled in Europe

Question 23

Vikings

Answer 23

Norsemen from Scandinavia who pillaged many places, yet only settled in Kiev

Question 24

Feudalism

Answer 24

When a lord would give protection to lesser people for service

Question 25

Vassal

Answer 25

A man who served a lord in military

Question 26

Knights

Answer 26

Heavily armed Calvary

Question 27

Fief

Answer 27

A grant of land to a vassal

Question 28

Feudal contract

Answer 28

Unwritten rules determining lord and vassal relationships

Question 29

Tournaments

Answer 29

Contests where knights showed fighting skills

Question 30

Chivalry

Answer 30

A code of ethics knights upheld

Question 31

Eleanor of Aquitaine

Answer 31

A woman who had 2 husbands and 8 kids, who also created a court celebrating cultural activities

Question 32

William of Normandy

Answer 32

A man who invaded England and took the throne from king Harold

Question 33

Henry 2

Answer 33

A monarch who increases the royal courts power, increasing his in the process

Question 34

Thomas a becket

Answer 34

An archbishop who believed catholic courts could try clerics, was killed by knights

Question 35

King John

Answer 35

The monarch who made the Magna Carta aka the Great Charter

Question 36

Edward 1

Answer 36

A man who reigned when parliament emerged

Question 37

Parliament

Answer 37

A group of 2 knights, all nobles and 2 people from every town

Question 38

House of Lords

Answer 38

Nobles and church lords

Question 39

House of Commons

Answer 39

Knights and townspeople

Question 40

Hugh Capet

Answer 40

The first king of the Capetian

Question 41

Phillip 2 Augustus

Answer 41

Expanded France’s income and power, and expanded France

Question 42

Louis 9

Answer 42

A ruler who was religious (a Catholic saint), and heard complaints in persom

Question 43

Phillip 4

Answer 43

Aka Phillip the fair, expanded bureaucracy and made parliament,end with clergy, nobles, and peasants

Question 44

Estates

Answer 44

Social classes

Question 45

First estate

Answer 45

The clergy

Question 46

Second estate

Answer 46

The nobles

Question 47

Third estate

Answer 47

The townspeople and peasamts

Question 48

Otto 1

Answer 48

A Saxon German king who controlled the church and was crowned emperor (a title previously only used in Rome)

Question 49

Fredrick 1

Answer 49

An Italian king who tried to unite Rome, Papal States, and Italy unsuccessfully

Question 50

Frederick 2

Answer 50

Another Italian king who tried to include the church in his empire

Question 51

Slavs

Answer 51

People who formed Polish and Bohemian kingdoms

Question 52

Cyril and Methodius

Answer 52

2 Byzantine brothers who were missionaries who converted eastern Slavics to Orthodox Christianity

Question 53

Alexander Nevsky

Answer 53

A prince of Novgorod who was rewarded with the title of “grand prince” by the leader of the Mongol Empire

Question 54

Justinian

Answer 54

An emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire which included Italy, Spain, Asia Minor, Palestine, Syria, and North Africa

Question 55

Eastern Orthodox Church

Answer 55

The Christian’s church of the Byzantine Emoire

Question 56

Patriarch

Answer 56

The head of the Orthodox Church, selected by emperor

Question 57

Schism

Answer 57

A separation

Question 58

Infidels

Answer 58

Non Christian’s, like Muslims

Question 59

Urban 2

Answer 59

A person who encouraged Christian’s to join the Holy war

Question 60

Saint Bernard of Clarivaux

Answer 60

A leader who fails to start another crusade

Question 61

Saladin

Answer 61

A person who led Muslim forces and made Jerusalem fall

Question 62

Frederick Barbarossa

Answer 62

1/3 rulers who attempted a 3rd crusade, but he drowned in a river

Question 63

Richard 1

Answer 63

1/3 rulers who attempted a 3rd crusade, he negotiated access to the Holy Land

Question 64

Phillip 2 Augustus

Answer 64

1/3 rulers who attempted a 3rd crusade

Question 65

Pope Innocent 3

Answer 65

The person who started the 4th crusade