CH 10 Study Guide

Question 1

What is a tournament?

Answer 1

A contest where knights could show their fighting skills

Question 2

Who were the Magyars?

Answer 2

Hungarians

Question 3

What is a fief?

Answer 3

the grant of land made to a vassal

Question 4

What is the Domesday book?

Answer 4

First census in Europe since Roman Times

Question 5

What did Philip IV do?

Answer 5

Created the first French parliament

Question 6

What did William of Normandy do?

Answer 6

Won the battle of Hastings

–> became King of England

Question 7

What is the Magna Carta?

Answer 7

Gave written recognition to the mutual rights and obligations between kings and vassals

Question 8

What did Cyril do?

Answer 8

Converted the Eastern Slavs to Christianity

Question 9

What did the Mongols do?

Answer 9

Conquered Russia in the 13th century

Question 10

Explain Kievan Rus.

Answer 10

Settled by Oleg the Viking in the 10th century.

Question 11

Otto I ____ and was ____ in return.

Answer 11

protected the Pope; crowned Roman emperor

Question 12

Eastern Slavic people were converted to what religion? How?

Answer 12

Orthodox Christianity; by Byzantine missionaries (Cyril)

Question 13

What two groups of people conquered the native people of Russia and Ukraine?

Answer 13

Vikings, then Mongols

Question 14

What became the chief religion for the Serbs?

Answer 14

Orthodox Christianity

Question 15

What was the most important thing a lord could give a vassal?

Answer 15

Piece of land

Question 16

What was chivalry?

Answer 16

Code of ethics for knights to uphold

Question 17

What was vassalage?

Answer 17

warriors swore loyalty to a lord, would have needs taken care of in return
- heart of Feudalism

Question 18

How did Phillip II Augustus increase the power of the French monarchy?

Answer 18

waged war on England; gained control of Normandy, Maine, Anjou, and Aquitaine

Question 19

How did craft guilds effect economic conditions of cities?

Answer 19

Improved them by setting quality standards for goods produced

Question 20

Describe Feudalism.

Answer 20

• Rulers couldn’t protect people, so new, smaller lords offered protection in return for military service
• would give vassal land to control politically, vassal would have own vassals
• knights high social status & land given meant they were wealthy
• feudal contract were unwritten rules between lord and vassal; military service & give advice in court when summoned -for- giving land, defending militarily, and taking his side in conflict

Question 21

What were the 2 agricultural improvements during the Middle Ages? Explain.

Answer 21

The carruca & the 3-field crop rotation.

• carruca was iron plow that turned heavy soils easily; expensive and required many animals, caused shift toward farming villages because a village would share 1
• 3-field crop rotation instead of 2-field allowed more land to be used at a time and increased food production

Question 22

How did the Vikings become part of European civilization?

Answer 22

Frankish policy of settling them and converting them to Christianity