Ch4:Middel Ages2,5-10

Question 1

Franks

Answer 1

Franks are people in a nation who ruled in western Europe in the sixth century CE

Question 2

Feudalism

Answer 2

Feudalism social order in medieval Europe

Question 3

Lords

Answer 3

Lord chief position in the feudal system below the monarch

Question 4

Clergy

Answer 4

Clergy officials of the Church

Question 5

Homage

Answer 5

Homage pledging duties and loyalty to a superior rank in the feudal system

Question 6

Stirrups

Answer 6

Stirrups foot supports suspended from a saddle by straps

Question 7

Joust

Answer 7

Joust combat between two mounted knights using blunted lances

Question 8

Moat

Answer 8

Moat water-filled defensive ditch surrounding a castle

Question 9

Palisade

Answer 9

Palisade tall fence made of pointed timber stakes driven into the ground

Question 10

Curtain wall

Answer 10

Curtain wall outer wall surrounding an inner wall in a castle

Question 11

Deposed

Answer 11

Deposed removed from a position of authority

Question 12

Fallow

Answer 12

Fallow is when a farmer leaves a feild for a year and uses the others and then each year rotates

Question 13

Vassal

Answer 13

A holder of land that grants or loans it to someone with conditions

Question 14

Fealty

Answer 14

Feudal Tenants or vassals sworn to loyalty to a lord

Question 15

Fief

Answer 15

Property or rights given to a vassal by an overlord to be held in fealty

Question 16

Mass

Answer 16

Mass is a religious feast

Question 17

Villein

Answer 17

A tenant is under power to a lord to who paid money and service in return for land

Question 18

Tithe

Answer 18

10% of annual produce or earnings taken as a tax and taken to the church or clergy

Question 19

Serf

Answer 19

An agricultural labourer that is tied to working the lords land because of the feudal system

Question 20

Watermill

Answer 20

It is a machine that is used to make flour by water from a stream flowing over a wheel making it spin then turning a few more and eventually grinding flour

Question 21

Artisan

Answer 21

Someone who works in a skilled trade, usually making things by hand

Question 22

Lance

Answer 22

The stick used by charging no nights made of wood with a pointed steel head

Question 23

Trebuchet

Answer 23

A weapon used medieval warfare to hurl missiles and large stones

Question 24

Siege

Answer 24

A battle tactic that surrounds a town or castle cutting off supplies and forcing than to surrender

Question 25

Artillery

Answer 25

A large gun in medieval warfare

Question 26

Motte

Answer 26

A mound forming the base of a castle of camp

Question 27

Bailey

Answer 27

The outer wall of the castle

Question 28

Steward

Answer 28

The lords business manager

Question 29

Bailiff

Answer 29

The tax collector

Question 30

Reeve

Answer 30

Someone who supervised the surfs to see if they did there farm work properly

Question 31

Men

Answer 31

Hard work all day, usually uneducated if they were, in monasteries, usually farmed or were crafters, married by 14

Question 32

Women

Answer 32

Did all the same farm work as men, little to no rights no mater what class, married by 12, also did house hold chores

Question 33

Children

Answer 33

Source of labour, no time to socialise, start working with household chores then quickly go out to the farms, adults by 10

Question 34

Merchants

Answer 34

Wholesale trades, sometimes foreign countries, supplying goods

Question 35

Concentric

Answer 35

Having a Common centre

Question 36

Motte & Bailey advantages

Answer 36

Could be built in 4-7 days, cheap to build, only needed a few soldiers to protect it,

Question 37

Motte & bailey disadvantages

Answer 37

Made of wood so easy to burn down, the material would Rott so needed to be replaced, easy for enemy’s to surround and cutoff food supply.

Question 38

Fall of Rome

Answer 38

To big to survive, Christianity introduced, civil war, no loyalty from barbarians, population declining

Question 39

Order the feudal system

Answer 39

Monarch:King queen, Tenants in chief:bishops lords, Subtenants: knights lesser clergy, peasants

Question 40

Miller

Answer 40

The baker or worker at the mill

Question 41

Thatcher

Answer 41

Someone who fixes the straw roofs