Chapter 7

Question 1

Mounted soldier

Answer 1

Knight

Question 2

Land given to serfs

Answer 2

Fief

Question 3

a worker who has learned a trade and works for another person usually by the day

Answer 3

Journeyman

Question 4

Peasants bound to the land

Answer 4

Serf

Question 5

authority over all secular rulers

Answer 5

Papal supremacy

Question 6

a grant or guarantee of rights, franchises, or privileges from the sovereign power of a state or country

Answer 6

Charter

Question 7

Traveling musicians

Answer 7

Troubadour

Question 8

one who is learning by practical experience under skilled workers a trade, art, or calling

Answer 8

Apprentice

Question 9

Founded the Franciscan order of Friars

Answer 9

St. Francis of Assisi

Question 10

King of Franks that became a Christian

Answer 10

Clovis

Question 11

King of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor

Answer 11

Charlemagne

Question 12

decision made by Charlemagne’s grandsons to split the empire into three regions.

Answer 12

Treaty of Verdun

Question 13

Vassals obligation

Answer 13

Pledged allegiance to lord, military stuff

Question 14

Serfs and land

Answer 14

Serfs were peasants bound to the land

Question 15

Christians believed that participation in the ________________ would lead them to salvation or everlasting life with God.

Answer 15

Sacraments

Question 16

Benedictine vows

Answer 16

Obedience, poverty, and chastity.

Question 17

periods of peace that demanded that any fighting stop between Friday and Sunday and also on religious holidays.

Answer 17

Truce of God

Question 18

the practice of growing different crops in succession on the same land chiefly to preserve the productive capacity of the soil

Answer 18

Crop rotation

Question 19

Newcomers

Answer 19

Became the middle class

Question 20

officials sent out to make sure that justice was done and that the law was administered fully and justly.

Answer 20

Missi Dominici

Question 21

King Clovis’ important step

Answer 21

Becoming Christian

Question 22

one of the pirate Norsemen plundering the coasts of Europe in the 8th to 10th centuries

Answer 22

Viking

Question 23

the system of political organization prevailing in Europe from the 9th to about the 15th centuries having as its basis the relation of lord to vassal with all land held in fee and as chief characteristics homage, the service of tenants under arms and in court, wardship, and forfeiture

Answer 23

Feudalism

Question 24

a person under the protection of a feudal lord to whom he has vowed homage and fealty : a feudal tenant

Answer 24

Vassal

Question 25

Knight abide by the Code of _________________

Answer 25

Chivalry

Question 26

limited secular influence on the church by insisting that the Church alone could choose its officials

Answer 26

Pope Gregory VII

Question 27

St. Francis of Assisi founded the Franciscans which was the first order of _________________, traveling clergy

Answer 27

Friars

Question 28

welcomed poor women who would not be accepted by other orders.

Answer 28

The Beguines

Question 29

Too crowded causing disgusting results

Answer 29

Overcrowding

Question 30

A municipal corporation is the legal term for a local governing body, including (but not necessarily limited to) cities, counties,...

Answer 30

City charter