middle ages

Question 1

Middle ages

Answer 1

The time period from 500-1500 that was between the ancient times and modern times.

Question 2

clovis

Answer 2

He captured the province of Gaul, which will later become the kingdom of France.

Question 3

charlemagne

Answer 3

In 800, he will be crowned the Emperor of the Romans, the first Germanic king to be given that title by a Christian pope.

Question 4

vikings

Answer 4

Scandinavian raiders who broke the last threads of unity in Charlemagne’s empire.

Question 5

fuedalism

Answer 5

Was a political and economic structure where lords and lesser lords agreed to protect each other from invasion.

Question 6

Vassals

Answer 6

Pledged loyalty and service to wealthier lords in exchange for land.

Question 7

fiefs

Answer 7

Another word for estate that could range from a few acres to hundreds of square miles.

Question 8

tournaments

Answer 8

Mock battles that combined recreation with often bloody combat training for knights.

Question 9

chilvary

Answer 9

A code of behavior that had to be followed by the knights.

Question 10

manor

Answer 10

Describes one or more villages and the surrounding lands and was the economic heart of the feudal economy.

Question 11

troubadors

Answer 11

Musicians who sang about the heroic deeds of knights.

Question 12

serfs

Answer 12

Were peasants who were bound to the land and could only leave with the lord’s permission.

Question 13

tithe

Answer 13

The church required Christians to pay this which was a tax equal to a tenth of their income.

Question 14

bishop

Answer 14

Supervised parish priests and ran bigger churches called cathedrals.

Question 15

monastarey

Answer 15

Type of religious community for Christian monks, where they gave up their possessions and lived and prayed.

Question 16

benedict rule

Answer 16

A set of rules for the monks and nuns to follow. They took three vows that were obedience, poverty and chastity.

Question 17

canon law

Answer 17

Church law, governing such matters as marriage, to which a medieval Christians had to follow.

Question 18

exocommunication

Answer 18

The most severe punishment for breaking church law which condemned people to the opposite place of heaven.

Question 19

tenant farmers

Answer 19

Peasants that paid rent for the land they farmed.

Question 20

apprentice

Answer 20

At the age of seven or eight, children went to work for a guild master for about seven years to learn a trade. They would eventually become a journeyman on their way to a guild master.