The Middle Ages

Question 1

Feudalism

Answer 1

The system of land ownership where rulers (kings, lords) divided land among their followers in return for loyalty

Question 2

Peasants

Answer 2

The people who worked on a lord’s land

Question 3

Oath of chivalry

Answer 3

Sworn by a knight to be loyal to his lord, protect the poor and weak and be brave in battle

Question 4

Open field system

Answer 4

The system of farming where peasants were each given strips of land to farm in large fields

Question 5

Fallow

Answer 5

Leave the land uncultivated for one year so that the soil could recover its nutrients

Question 6

Commons

Answer 6

Used for grading the animals that belonged to the peasants

Question 7

Tithe

Answer 7

The payment of one-tenth of a peasant’s annual income to the Church

Question 8

Guild

Answer 8

an organisation of skilled people who worked in the same trade, they were also craftsmen

Question 9

Charter

Answer 9

A contract whereby a town was granted freedom to run its own affairs but paid taxes to the king

Question 10

Oath of fealty

Answer 10

Sworn to the king, promising to fight for him, provide him with troops, and pay him taxes

Question 11

Motte

Answer 11

An artificial hill with a wooden tower or keep at the top

Question 12

Bailey

Answer 12

a large enclosed area where soldiers lived, below the motte

Question 13

Siege

Answer 13

A surrender from the castle

Question 14

Lord

Answer 14

A very powerful and privileged person who opened huge areas of land & commanded knights and soliders

Question 15

Dowry

Answer 15

A sum of money or land paid to the groom

Question 16

Solar room

Answer 16

A warm, sunny room where the lady would weave, play music, or teach children

Question 17

Foot soldiers

Answer 17

Soldiers who fought with swords, daggers and spears, and used shields, and leather padded jackets for protection

Question 18

Archers

Answer 18

Soldiers who Fought with bow and arrows and had little protection

Question 19

Knights

Answer 19

Minor nobles who swore an oath of chilvary, they fought on horseback with a full body armour

Question 20

Manor

Answer 20

A village owned by a lord or knight that had about 50 houses for peasants

Question 21

Balliff

Answer 21

Smeone who Ran the manor in the lord’s absence, collected taxes and kept law and order in the village

Question 22

Freemen

Answer 22

People who didn’t work the land for free and could marry and move about

Question 23

Curfew

Answer 23

A time at night when people living in a medieval town had to put out all fires

Question 24

Craftsmen

Answer 24

Someone who produced everyday goods that the town needs (butcher, baker, blacksmith)

Question 25

Friar

Answer 25

A monk who lived amongst the people so he could help them

Question 26

Minstrels and jesters

Answer 26

Musicians and comic performers that provided entertainment for lords and ladies

Question 27

Bleeding

Answer 27

Cutting the patient and draining some blood

Question 28

Cupping

Answer 28

Placing heated metal cups on the skin to draw fluids to the surface

Question 29

Leeching

Answer 29

Using leeches to draw blood or other fluids out of the body

Question 30

Amputations

Answer 30

Cutting off a limb to stop infection from spreading throughout the body

Question 31

Stocks

Answer 31

A public punishment where a wooden/metal framework held those convicted by crimes by their hands or feet