Middle ages

Question 1

Middle ages years

Answer 1

500-1500CE

Question 2

Who ran the schools in the Middle Ages

Answer 2

Preists

Question 3

What is Feudalism

Answer 3

A government system in which local lords had a fief with serfs to work the land.
Lords were vassals for the King. → which means if the country goes to war, the lord and its serfs would fight.

Question 4

Who were peasants

Answer 4

Serfs who worked on the manor.

Question 5

The Role of God in the Middle Ages

Answer 5

-God gave the pope’s Papal Supremacy which means God gave the pope the right to rule.
-people accepted their hard lives as God’s will.

Question 6

The Role of the Church in the Middle Ages

Answer 6

-The Catholic Church had much power in the Middle Ages
-healed sick
-controlled schools
-Church was a social outlet
-owned a lot of land

Question 7

Church punishment

Answer 7

-The Inquisition→ a court in which people would be brought forward in accusation of heresy against the catholic church
-punishment→ If they didn’t confess, they were whipped and sent to prison or burned at the stake.

Question 8

The Crusades

Answer 8

-1093→ Pope Urban II issued a “Holy war” to gain control over the holy land. (Jerusalem)
-went to get the land AND recover riches
-crusaders→ knights but mostly poor peasants
-THERE WERE 12 CRUSADES.

Question 9

Parliament

Answer 9

-in 1295, parliament was established which was a group of representatives of the nobles, kings and clergy that would meet and debate taxes

Question 10

The Magna Carta

Answer 10

-Signed by the King of England → King John bc he was cruel to his subjects.
-guaranteed nobles basic political rights like no taxation w/o representation, jury trials, and protection under the law.
- eventually, it was applied to every citizen

Question 11

Fief

Answer 11

A land awarded to a lord that their serfs worked on.