Norman England🏰😷

Question 1

The Middle Ages was also known as?

Answer 1

Medieval Period

Question 2

Who were one of the most powerful groups in medieval Europe?

Answer 2

The Normans

Question 3

The Vikings/norsemen settled in north-west France that is now known as?

Answer 3

Normandy

Question 4

People who lived in Normandy were known as?

Answer 4

Normans

Question 5

Who became the King of England?

Answer 5

William the Conqueror

Question 6

By 1200, Normans had set out to conquer many different parts of Europe. Where in Europe did they eventually control land?

Answer 6

England
Ireland
France
Italy
Tusnia
Libya
Middle East

Question 7

Feudalism

Answer 7

The system of land ownership where rulers divided land among their followers in return for loyalty and taxes.

Question 8

What were the kings higher class followers called?

Answer 8

Nobles or Vassals

Question 9

What was the land given to Nobles/Vassals called?

Answer 9

Fief

Question 10

What oath did the Nobels/Vassals swear to the king?

Answer 10

Oath of fealty

Question 11

What did the oath of fealty promise?

Answer 11

-to fight for the King
-to provide him with troops
-to pay him taxes

Question 12

Nobles gave some of their land to?

Answer 12

Knights

Question 13

Knights then looked after who?

Answer 13

Peasants

Question 14

Peasants

Answer 14

People who worked on a lords land.

Question 15

In order to take control of his new fief quickly a lord would?

Answer 15

Build a temporary castle called a motte and Bailey.

Question 16

Motte

Answer 16

Small artificial hill with a wooden tower or keep at the top.

Question 17

Bailey

Answer 17

-Below the keep
-large enclosed area where the soldiers lived.
-surrounded by high wooden fences or a moat.

Question 18

Once a lords control of an area was secured he would build a ?

Answer 18

Permanent stone castle

Question 19

Curtain walls

Answer 19

Enclosed the castle and protected those inside.

Question 20

Keep

Answer 20

-The main building inside the walls
-Inside is the lords apartments, great hall, chapel

Question 21

Dungeons

Answer 21

-below the keep
-store food
-hold prisoners

Question 22

Battlements

Answer 22

-ran along the top of the keep and the walls
-soldiers patrol along them day and night

Question 23

Towers/turrets

Answer 23

Built into walls at regular Intervals to shoot attackers

Question 24

Bailey

Answer 24

Enclosed area around the keep.

Question 25

Gatehouse

Answer 25

Where the drawbridge and portcullis were found

Question 26

Moat

Answer 26

-Surrounded the castle -deep ditch filled with water

Question 27

Attackers would use?

Answer 27

-Catapults -siege towers -cannons

Question 28

Dowry

Answer 28

Sum of money or land paid to a groom.

Question 29

A lady’s main duty was to..?

Answer 29

Have children as heirs

Question 30

The family lived upstairs in the keep in the…?

Answer 30

Solar

Question 31

Feasts were held in the..?

Answer 31

Great hall

Question 32

Minstrels

Answer 32

Musicians

Question 33

Jesters

Answer 33

Comic performers

Question 34

Men wore

Answer 34

-long tunics -trousers of fine wool or linen

Question 35

Women wore

Answer 35

-full-length dresses

Question 36

The richest wore….

Answer 36

Silk from Asia

Question 37

Foot soldiers

Answer 37

-made up the largest part of any medieval army -fought with swords,daggers and spears -they were peasants

Question 38

Archers

Answer 38

-fought with a bow and arrow -wore little protective clothing

Question 39

Knights

Answer 39

-fought on horseback -swore an oath of chivalry -wore full body armour -there were only a few hundred nights in the Norman army

Question 40

What was stage 1 of knight training called?

Answer 40

Page

Question 41

What was Stage 1 = Page

Answer 41

- boy age 7 - sent to live with a family of another lord -this was called fostering - learned how to ride a horse, use a sword

Question 42

Stage 2 was called?

Answer 42

Squire

Question 43

What was Stage 2 = Squire

Answer 43

- Aged 14 - learned how to fight on horseback - accompany lord into battle

Question 44

What was stage 3?

Answer 44

Knight

Question 45

What was stage 3 = Knight?

Answer 45

- age 21 - eligible to become a knight - took part in the ceremony of dubbing - swore the oath of chivalry - lord would give him a manor to manage

Question 46

Oath of chivalry

Answer 46

To stay loyal to his lord, protect the poor and weak and be brave in battle.

Question 47

Peasants lived in villages called?

Answer 47

Manors

Question 48

Manors were owned by?

Answer 48

A lord or knight

Question 49

Manor House

Answer 49

Where the lord or knight lived

Question 50

Bailiff

Answer 50

The man who ran the manor in the lords absence.

Question 51

What was the main occupation for peasants on a medieval manor?

Answer 51

Farming

Question 52

What system did the peasants use for farming?

Answer 52

Open field system

Question 53

Open field system

Answer 53

Each field was divided into long strips of land and tended by different families. Each family had strips in each 3 fields.

Question 54

Crop rotation

Answer 54

The crop planted in each field changed every year

Question 55

Fallow

Answer 55

Empty field for one year so that the nutrients in the soil could recover

Question 56

Commons

Answer 56

Used for grazing the animals that belonged to the peasants. This was the fourth large field.

Question 57

What were the two types of peasants?

Answer 57

Serfs Freemen

Question 58

Tithe

Answer 58

Pay a tenth of their income to local priests

Question 59

Which type of peasant was better off?

Answer 59

Freemen

Question 60

Charter

Answer 60

A contract where the town was granted freedom to run its own affairs but had to pay taxes to the king.

Question 61

Towns had high walls to?

Answer 61

Pro text them against attack.

Question 62

Gates

Answer 62

The only way in and out of the town.

Question 63

Narrow streets

Answer 63

Contained houses and shops

Question 64

The average person house was made of..?

Answer 64

Wood

Question 65

Only important building were made of..?

Answer 65

Stone

Question 66

Streets

Answer 66

- very dirty - crowded - this spread disease

Question 67

Craftsmen

Answer 67

Produced everyday goods

Question 68

Guilds

Answer 68

Organisations of people who worked in the same trade

Question 69

What were the two different styles of cathedrals built?

Answer 69

Gothic Romanesque

Question 70

Priests

Answer 70

- wealthy from tithes - sometimes thought children the bible

Question 71

Abbot

Answer 71

Head of a monastery

Question 72

Abbess

Answer 72

Head of a convent

Question 73

Scriptorium

Answer 73

Where they copied books and manuscripts

Question 74

Refectory

Answer 74

Where monks ate

Question 75

Dormitory

Answer 75

A large room where the monks slept

Question 76

Cloisters

Answer 76

Covered walkways for prayer

Question 77

Chapter house

Answer 77

Where monks gathered for readings

Question 78

Infirmary

Answer 78

Where the informarían looked after the ill

Question 79

Hostel

Answer 79

Where guests and travellers could stay

Question 80

What is the strict set of rules monks live by?

Answer 80

Rule of St Benedict

Question 81

Monk hairstyle

Answer 81

Tonsure

Question 82

Hippocrates believed that the body…?

Answer 82

Was made up of four humours.

Question 83

What were the 4 humours?

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-blood -black bile -yellow bile -phlegm

Question 84

If a person was sick it was because of..?

Answer 84

An imbalance between the humours

Question 85

What were the four medical practices carried out by doctors?

Answer 85

- Bleeding - Leeching - Cupping - Amputation

Question 86

The worst disease to affect Europe in the Middle Ages was the..?

Answer 86

Bubonic plague

Question 87

Symptoms of bubonic plague?

Answer 87

Buboes

Question 88

What were the 3 impacts of the Black Death?

Answer 88

- feudal system, especially serfdom went into decline. - peasants who remained on the land got better treatments as there was so few left. - failure to find a cure for the Black Death made people question their medical beliefs, later resulting in the renaissance

Question 89

Impact of Norman rule on Ireland?

Answer 89

- Norman’s introduced English rule that lasted nearly 800 years. - feudal system was introduced into Ireland - Norman’s built big castles - farming practices shifted - Norman names became very common….fitz - , Browne, Barry - Norman’s married Irish and their families became known as Anglo-Irish or ‘Old English’.

Question 90

British royal family

Answer 90

All kings and queens since 1066 are directly related to William the conqueror.

Question 91

A Norman building found in Dublin

Answer 91

Christ Church Cathedral

Question 92

Language

Answer 92

French became the language of government of England. French hugely influenced the English language.