Middle Ages Quiz

Question 1

The myth of the Middle Ages

Answer 1

Knights kings queens shining amor romantic

Question 2

Middle Ages time period

Answer 2

1066 - 1500

Question 3

The reality

Answer 3

Dark ages, historian know little, time, 5th century to 15 century

Question 4

Manorialism

Answer 4

Economic system( production and trade)

Question 5

The lord of manor

Answer 5

For safety and defense people in the middle ages formed small communities

Question 6

Manor house

Answer 6

Where lords lived

Question 7

Manor were normally isolated from

Answer 7

Visits from peddlers, pilgrims on away to the cursades, soldiers

Question 8

Self sufficiency

Answer 8

Growing and producing food shelter, mill grinding grain, bake house making bread, blacksmith creating goods

Question 9

The peasants

Answer 9

Lowest level of society, lord offered protection for exchange of living and working on his land

Question 10

Be

Question 11

Feudal system

Answer 11

The king awarded land of fiefs for Nobles barons Bishops. In return contribution of soldiers for the king.

Question 12

. Daily life.

Answer 12

No rules divided land among the lesser nobility who became their vessels. Many of these vessels became powerful.

Question 13

Lord

Answer 13

Broad term for who owns land

Question 14

Vessel

Answer 14

Granted, possession of land by the Lord

Question 15

Fiefs

Answer 15

Land itself

Question 16

Serfs

Answer 16

Contracted lab
Happened when peasants owed large debt
Couldn’t leave without Lord approval
Lord, only the surfs worked on
Required to pay rent
More like a slave

Question 17

Peasants

Answer 17

At the lowest level of society
The Lord offered his peasants protection for exchange of living and working on land
Hard work and high taxes peasants worked hard and we’re heavily taxed

Question 18

Magna Carta

Answer 18

1215
English barons formed alliance, forced King John to snide Magna Carta limited the Kings power of taxation monarch subjected to law

Question 19

Peasants homes

Answer 19

Many families eight slept and spent time in small houses one and two bedrooms

Question 20

Peasant clothing

Answer 20

Men-stockings tunic
Women-long gown, sleeveless tunics wimples that covered hair
Leather boots covered feet to keep dry
Clothes were never washed
Women weave wall to make clothes
Flow dresses, elaborate hair headwear

Question 21

What were peasant homes like?

Answer 21

Call damp and dark, normally warmer and lighter outside. Dirt floors.

Question 22

Women’s duty’s at home

Answer 22

Cooking baking bread, sewing, weaving
We’re given two options to get married or be a nun
No of the witch, if not devoted to God

Question 23

Clothing of the wealthy

Answer 23

Elaborate then would change to follow fashion
Jewelry/fur
For a jackets to keep warm gems, imported from other places, ring brooches
Dresses and skirts

Question 24

Medicine/medical knowledge

Answer 24

No system no knowledge
Antibiotics invented in the 1800s

Question 25

Myths/superstitions of medicine

Answer 25

Smell lead to sickness You got sick if your soul was bad If you prayed you will survive

Question 26

How they see your body in the four humors

Answer 26

Part of the universe part of the four elements

Question 27

What are the four humors?

Answer 27

Fire – yellow bile choler Water – Phlegm Earth– black bile Air – blood

Question 28

About The plague

Answer 28

Known as the Black Death Bubonic plague Arrived in 1348

Question 29

Where did the black death/plague come from?

Answer 29

Comes from a bite from a flea Fleas were on rats And rats were in houses and on boats

Question 30

Symptoms of the black death/plague

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Due to poor sanitation/breeding grounds for rats Symptoms include fever, ache, vomiting, blood, swollen, lymph nodes, blackish color

Question 31

How many people did the plague kill?

Answer 31

50 million people

Question 32

What population died from the plague?

Answer 32

30 to 40%

Question 33

What year did the plague occur

Answer 33

Only two years 1348 to 1350

Question 34

Did the plague return multiple times?

Answer 34

Yes

Question 35

Can you still contract the plague?

Answer 35

Yes, but could be cured with antibiotics

Question 36

About arts and music

Answer 36

Singing without instrumental accompaniment Singing was very important Songs normally were enchanted

Question 37

Musical instruments

Answer 37

Organs bells Hurdy-gurdy Other instruments normally took two people one to turn story one to crank

Question 38

Dramas

Answer 38

Drama grew First dramas were all religious about the Bible

Question 39

Costumes

Answer 39

A form of entertainment Entertainment normally was outside the church and at marketplaces

Question 40

The church

Answer 40

Only one church in Europe during middle ages Had their own laws Large income Church leaders, such as bishops in arch bishops Leading roles in government

Question 41

Church structure

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Pope– head of church Cardinals – advisors to the pope administrators of church Bishops and arch Bishops– superior over cathedral or region Priest – author over Parish

Question 42

Bishops

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Wealthy families Ruled over groups of parishes called dioceses Exchange for land and peasants had to provide

Question 43

Parish priests

Answer 43

Humble backgrounds Had a little education thought only about the Bible

Question 44

Monasteries

Answer 44

Monks became known as Benedict’s and took vows of poverty chastely in obedience to their leaders

Question 45

Monks

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Required to perform manual labor, and were forbidden to leave property

Question 46

Nuns

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Female counterpart who lived in convents Provided for less fortunate Safe Haven, Pilgrims, and other travelers Women who didn’t want to get married

Question 47

Monastic life

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Monks and nuns went to church eight times a . Singing. And chanting.

Question 48

Education

Answer 48

Copied and read religious texts

Question 49

The Canterbury tales

Answer 49

People traveled to Canterbury Stories told by 30 pilgrims as they traveled

Question 50

Social classes

Answer 50

First estate – church and clergy Second estate – nobility those who fight Third estate– peasants

Question 51

Women were either what

Answer 51

Wives or virgin/chaste/ widow