Exams Flashcards
What is a topography map?
A map that shows the elevation of the land.
What is Eurasia?
The content that Europe and Asia are located on.
True or false, the ural mountains are the barrier between Asia and Europe?
True.
Which part of Europe has many mountains?
The southern part
What is the Northern European Plain?
The flat area in the middle of Europe.
What are the abiotic and biotic things in the European plain?
Many trees and rivers
What is latitude?
Imaginary horizontal lines that show position.
What is longitude?
Vertical invisible lines that show position.
What is life like in Southern Europe?
People live on the coast
Warmer
Many fishermen
What naturally protects the southern part of Europe?
The Alps.
What was life like in the Northern part of Europe?
People lived further from the sea.
They used numerous rivers to get around and to reach the seas
Many towns developed on Rivers an example is Paris
There was many flat field for farming.
What was bad about living in the northern part of Europe?
There was not good protection because there were no mountains and they were frequently invaded.
What are the 3 reasons Christianity spread through the Roman empire?
Paul wrote epistles, Roman roads, disciples, and Emperor Constantine.
Who are missionaries?
People that traveled to try and convert others to their faith.
Who is a famous missionary?
Saint Patrick.
Who are monks?
Religious men who lived apart from society.
What did monks do?
Ran schools, copied books, collected writing for ancient Greece and Rome, served as scribes to local rulers, and spent their time in prayer work and meditation.
What did monk rules include?
World included how to eat, dress, pray, and live.
Who did Charlemagne lead?
the franks.
True or false, Charlemagne was not a Christian.
False.
What did Charlemagne do?
Helped the European people and made them realize that they were all European and not just individual tribes.
How did Charlemagne connect the European tribes?
He said that Christianity connect them along with them all being from Europe.
What was Charlemagne crown?
Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Leo the third.
What happened after the fall of Rome with the land?
Various groups claimed they were the rulers of Rome and divided it into many small kingdoms.
What marked the beginning of the middle ages or medieval Europe?
When Europe was divided into many small kingdoms.
Why were the middle ages called the “Middle” Ages?
Because the time falls between ancient and modern times.
Why was it called “medieval”?
Medieval means middle in Latin.
Who created feudalism?
The franks in the 1000 technically by William the conqueror.
Who was William the conqueror?
A French nobles who declared war on Britain.
What did William the conqueror do?
He declared war on Britain and with the help of those nights he defeated the English king and called him something he became known as William the conqueror.
How did William the Conqueror create feudalism?
He gave large fiefs to people who helped him conquer Britain.
What is manorialism?
The economical system of the middle ages mostly in the manors.
True or false, and manorialism the manner is self-sufficient.
True.
What did people do in the manor during manorialism?
They lived, raised crops and made nearly everything that they needed on the manor. That included: their clothes and cutting down their own wood.
What is the geography of Europe?
Europe is one large peninsula made up of many smaller peninsulas.
True or false did not matter what class women were, they were always lower then men?
True
What did women have to do for their father/husbands?
Obey them until they were married off or until someone died.
What would happen if a women’s husband died and he was in control of an estate?
Their son would receive control of the estate.
Could a son make a choice if his mother should still live in an estate or not?
Yes
When were women usually married?
Around 13-16.
What was a marriage like?
A business deal
What did noble women
do?
Directed the servants of the manner when the husbands were not home.
What did surf women do?
Helped provide for the family
What kind of boy of noble class become?
A knight.
How many steps were there to be a knight?
2
Describe the first step to becoming a knight.
A noble boy at the age of seven served as a page he learned lately manners and how to take care of weaponry.
Describe the second step to becoming a knight.
A noble boy who is a teenager served as a squire he takes care of the Knight’s horse armor and weapons.
What is a page and what does he do for a knight?
A seven-year-old boy who learn nightly manners and how to care for weaponry.
What is a Squire for a knight and what does he do?
A Noble teenage boy that takes care of the knight’s horse armor and weapons
True or false, when a night felt that his squire was ready, he would not take the teen into battle, but give him a horse.
False, when a knight felt his Squire was ready they would both go into battle and if the Squire succeeded he would become a knight in a religious ceremony.
What is chivalry?
A system of rules that dictates a knight’s behavior towards others.
What were four rules in chivalry?
Be courageous and fight fairly
-If a knight use tricks they would be considered
a coward
Remain loyal to friends and your lord.
Keep your word
Courteous to women and less powerfulWho is Genghis Khan?
Leader of the Mongols.
What was Genghis Khan’s accomplishment?
He created the largest empire that the world has ever seen.
What did Genghis Khan’s name mean?
Universal ruler of all.
What was Genghis Khan’s goal?
To conquer all of Europe and Asia under Mongol rule.
What was Genghis Khan’s fighting style?
Very skilled horseman with Bows and arrow’s.
What did Genghis Khan’s soldiers wear?
Leather armor and silk shirts to protect themselves from arrows.
What would happen if Genghis Khan conquered a city?
He would kill full villages of men, women, and children.
What would Genghis do to enemy men?
Used them as human shields against their own people.
What would Genghis Khan do to you if you were not loyal?
Killed you
True or false, as Genghis Khan’s reputation grew, the fear of the Mongols did not spread but a revolution came up?
False, as Genghis Khan’s reputation grew, the fear of the Mongols spread.
Who is Kublai Khan?
Genghis Khan’s grandson.
What did Kublai Khan do for his grandfather?
Finished the conquest for China.
True or false, Kublai Khan declared himself emperor and was it the first time in history that China was ruled by a foreigner?
True.
Who started the Yuan dynasty?
Kublai Khan
What is a dynasty?
A Chinese empire with all the same bloodline ruling.
List the 4 ways the Mongols were different than the Chinese.
They had a different language
Worshiped different gods
Wore different clothing
Had different customs
True or false Kublai forced the Chinese to except the Mongol way.
False.
Why didn’t Kublai make the Chinese follow the Mongol Way?
They thought the Chinese were a lesser people.
What did the Mongols make the Chinese do?
Pay higher taxes
Build roads, canals, and palaces.
Why did the Mongols make the Chinese do more work than the Mongol people?
To keep control of the Chinese.
True or false, the Mongols were respected traders?
True
Did the Mongols welcome foreign traders into China?
Yes
Who is the most famous trader welcomed into China by the Mongols?
Marco Polo.
Who was highly respected by the Mongols?
Marco Polo
What did Marco Polo do?
Wrote about his travels and sparked European interest in China.
What were the three things that made the Yuan dynasty fall?
Loss of Mongol forces weakened her military after the battle of Japan.
Improvements to roads and canals bankrupt the country.
The Chinese rebelled against the Mongols and won.
How did the Mongols lose the battle of Japan?
When the army sailed to Japan, violent storms crippled the forces and then fierce Japanese warriors killed the rest.
What feudalism also being practiced in Japan the same time as it was being practiced in Europe?
Yes.
What was the order from top to bottom of the classes in feudalism in Japan?
Emperor, Daimyo, Samurai, peasant.
What is a samurai’s job?
To protect the land and his Daimyo.
Did Daimyo come from a noble family like a knight?
Yes.
True or false only if you’re Daimyos could afford armor and weapons for their samurai?
True, unlike nights, who the Lord supplied everything for, I simmer I had to work for his land food armor and weapons.
What code of conduct and did the Semrai practice?
Bushido.
What does Bushido mean in Japanese?
BOnuS qUesTion!
Way of the warrior
True or false, people who practice Bushido live simple, disciplined lives?
True.
What did samurai believe self-discipline could do?
Make them better warriors.
What did the samurai participate in that required great concentration?
Rituals such as meditation.
Who from samurai families had to follow Bushido?
Men and women.
Why did both men and women in a family practice Bushido?
So the woman could make healthy babies
So the women could learn how to protect her home from robbers
And so the men could be disciplined when they go to war
What must samurai do at all costs?
Without hesitation show complete loyalty to their Daimyo.
