Feudal States

Question 0

Fiefs

Answer 0

Grants of land

Question 1

Vassals

Answer 1

Pledged loyalty and military service to the LORD in exchange for land

Question 2

Lay investiture

Answer 2

The appointment of bishops and church officials by lords and vassals

Question 3

Pope Urban II

Answer 3

Called the first crusade (military campaigns of conversion)

Question 4

Scholasticism

Answer 4

Major philosophy of feudal time, attempt to combine religious beliefs to rational thought

Question 5

Treaty of Verdun

Answer 5

Split Carolingian Empire into 3 kingdoms among the sons of Louis the Pious (son of CHARLEMAGNE)

Question 6

Battle of Hastings

Answer 6

Norman-French duke William I (DOOMSDAY BOOK) defeated English army of anglo-saxon king Harold II

Question 7

Magna Carta

Answer 7

Document signed by KING JOHN agreeing to respect rights of nobles and to rule fairly

Question 8

Shoen

Answer 8

Private manor/land in Japan

Question 9

Bushido and Seppuku

Answer 9

Samurai code of honor and ritual suicide by disembowelment

Question 10

Appanages

Answer 10

Separate holdings of land by Russian princes

Question 11

Boyars

Answer 11

Russian aristocrat