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What does the phrase "Town air makes you free" refer to?

Answers may vary - serfs were able to be free if they escaped for a year and a day, people paid rent to landlords in cash, etc.

What religion dominated western Europe after the fall of Rome?

The Christian (Catholic) Church, based in Rome.

What job/social class was completely irrelevant by the end of the Middle Ages?

Knights! Thanks to the longbow and gunpowder

Define Nation-state and give two examples of nation-states that we learned about.

An independent country with a common government, culture and language. Examples = England, France, Spain and Russia

Finish the line: "But the decreased population led to the amelioration/of the peasant folk-hey/They could ask for..."

“more pay” (Serfs were able to demand higher wages because there were so few workers following the Black Death)

In the early 500s, who had more power: Western Europe or Eastern Europe and why?

Eastern Europe because it was dominated by the Byzantine Empire; the Western Roman Empire had collapsed

Where were the most likely places one could learn to read in medieval Europe?

In monasteries as part of the Catholic Church

True or false: Medieval Europe was the only place to develop feudalism

False- it also happened in Japan

Knights were supposed to follow a set of unwritten rules or expectations of behavior called what?

Code of Chivalry

What word for “land” is characterized by its self-sufficiency?

Manor

In THREE words, how did the plague spread?

Fleas on rats

True or false: the trade that arose following the Crusades contributed to the spread of the plague in Europe during the 1300s

True

True or false: more years were spent fighting during the Crusades than not fighting

False

What term refers to a group of people in towns who did the same job and set prices and standards for products?

Guilds

Who said “God wills it!” in a very important speech, and what was the “it” he was referring to?

Poor Urban II; it=reclaim the Holy Land for the Catholic Church

Explain two reasons feudalism declined in the late Middle Ages.

Crusades, rise of towns, Black Death and Hundred Years War

Define feudalism

A political, social and economic system in which land is exchanged for loyalty and military service

True or false: a vassal was a lord of a fief

True

This group of people worked the land on a manor

Serfs

William the Conqueror was famous for conquering what in 1066?

England

In 800, this king was crowned emperor by the Pope

Charlemagne; however his empire did not last long after his death.