Middle Ages in Western Europe

Question 1

North Atlantic Drift

Answer 1

the warm ocean current flowing northeast, under the influence of prevailing winds

Question 2

Monastery

Answer 2

Buildings occupied by a community of monks living under religious vows

Question 3

Charlemagne

Answer 3

King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and Emperor of the Carolingian Empire

Question 4

Holy Roman Empire

Answer 4

European territories under the rule of the Frankish or German king

Question 5

Feudalism

Answer 5

people were given land and protection by people of higher rank, and worked and fought for them in return.

Question 6

Manorialism

Answer 6

a system of economic, social, and political organization based on the medieval manor

Question 7

William The Conqueror

Answer 7

the first Norman king of England (as William I), reigning from 1066 until his death

Question 8

Papacy

Answer 8

the office of pope

Question 9

Monarch

Answer 9

a person who reigns over a kingdom or empire

Question 10

Magna Carta

Answer 10

a document guaranteeing English political liberties that was drafted at Runnymede

Question 11

The Crusades

Answer 11

a series of religious wars between Christians and Muslims

Question 12

Pope Urban II

Answer 12

the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 12 March 1088 to his death.

Question 13

Saladin

Answer 13

A Kurdish general who conquered Egypt (see also Egypt) and Syria in the twelfth century

Question 14

Richard I

Answer 14

1157–99, king of England (1189–99); a leader of the third crusade

Question 15

The Black Death

Answer 15

An epidemic of plague, especially its bubonic form, that occurred in outbreaks between 1347 and 1400

Question 16

The Hundred Years War

Answer 16

a war between England and France.

Question 17

Joan of Arc

Answer 17

a national heroine of France

Question 18

Henry V

Answer 18

King of England from 1413 until his death in 1422 made English culture be used

Question 19

Reconquista

Answer 19

a centuries-long series of battles by Christian states to expel the Muslims (Moors), who from the 8th century ruled most of the Iberian Peninsula

Question 20

Queen Isabella

Answer 20

the queen of Castile whose marriage to Ferdinand of Aragon in 1469 marked the beginning of the modern state of Spain

Question 21

King Ferdinand

Answer 21

king of Aragon and king of Castile (as Ferdinand V) from 1479, joint sovereign with Queen Isabella I.

Question 22

Inquisition

Answer 22

the act of inquiring deeply or searchingly

Question 23

Iberian Peninsula

Answer 23

peninsula in southwestern Europe, occupied by Spain and Portugal