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Medieval Europe

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  • What word for “land” is characterized by its self-sufficiency?
    Manor
  • True or false: the trade that arose following the Crusades contributed to the spread of the plague in Europe during the 1300s
    True
  • 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)
  • 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 term refers to a group of people in towns who did the same job and set prices and standards for products?
    Guilds
  • What job/social class was completely irrelevant by the end of the Middle Ages?
    Knights! Thanks to the longbow and gunpowder
  • Define feudalism
    A political, social and economic system in which land is exchanged for loyalty and military service
  • 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
  • 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
  • Knights were supposed to follow a set of unwritten rules or expectations of behavior called what?
    Code of Chivalry
  • 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
  • This group of people worked the land on a manor
    Serfs
  • Where were the most likely places one could learn to read in medieval Europe?
    In monasteries as part of the Catholic Church
  • What religion dominated western Europe after the fall of Rome?
    The Christian (Catholic) Church, based in Rome.
  • In 800, this king was crowned emperor by the Pope
    Charlemagne; however his empire did not last long after his death.
  • True or false: more years were spent fighting during the Crusades than not fighting
    False
  • William the Conqueror was famous for conquering what in 1066?
    England
  • Explain two reasons feudalism declined in the late Middle Ages.
    Crusades, rise of towns, Black Death and Hundred Years War
  • In THREE words, how did the plague spread?
    Fleas on rats
  • True or false: Medieval Europe was the only place to develop feudalism
    False- it also happened in Japan
  • True or false: a vassal was a lord of a fief
    True