Middle Ages

Question 1

when did the middle ages begin, and with what event?

Answer 1

476 AD and it began with the event fall of rome

Question 2

Why did europe become such a violent place during the middle ages?

Answer 2

Europe became a violent place because they had too much land and barbarians started to target them

Question 3

Who was a key figure who brought stabillity to europe? What event led to the power of this figure? How did he bring stabillity

Answer 3

King William of Normandy, he created Feudalism which was a Hierarchical Social and Economic system

Question 4

Feudalism involved obligations among various groups within the feudal hierarchy.

Answer 4

Every group had to be loyal to the king, the serfs and peasants had to work, the knights had to protect, the nobles would have land and make it beautiful and the king would “govern” the entire fiefdom.

Question 5

Why is the feudalism hierarchy often drawn in a pyramid shape.

Answer 5

It is often drawn as a pyramid because there is less people at the top (1 king) and more people at the bottom and it gradually decreases the higher the rank.

Question 6

What did feudalism provide.

Answer 6

Feudalism provided stability in Europe along with protection.

Question 7

What did a lord’s strength depend on.

Answer 7

A lords strength depended on the amount of land and serfs they had.

Question 8

What two things did a lord need to defend his property and people.

Answer 8

He needed serfs and knights

Question 9

How could a regular serf escape the serfdom.

Answer 9

If a serf escaped for 366 days, they would become free.

Question 10

How was life as a merchant different from a peasant or lord.

Answer 10

A merchant had more rights then a peasant but less than a lord. Instead of working and farming they would sell goods and resources.

Question 11

How did a guild control society

Answer 11

Guilds provided all manufactured goods which meant if the fiefdom didn’t have a specialized guild to make a certain good, they wouldn’t have it.

Question 12

Why was religion so important to people living in the Middle Ages.

Answer 12

People believed life was just a test that decided how good their afterlife would be. The better the normal life and the more faith and devotion to god, the better the afterlife.

Question 13

Why do you think medieval people accepted what the church was telling them without question.

Answer 13

The church was the only religion in Europe during that time and since no other source was telling them these things, they had to believe it. They also couldn’t read or write so they couldn’t read the Bible and get real proof.

Question 14

why do you think people would want to become a Monk or Nun.

Answer 14

People might become a Nun or Monk so then they could have a tighter bond with god and have a better afterlife.

Question 15

Describe three ways in which the church was central to people’s lives.

Answer 15

People had to pay tithes, people had to follow rules and people had to go to church every Sunday.

Question 16

The Church was the only organization at the time offering education. How did this role give the Church power?

Answer 16

Since it was the only source of education and new knowledge, it wasn’t questioned at all which led all information brought by the Church immediately true according to people.

Question 17

What were the crusades? who was involved? What were they fighting over? What was the primary purpose of the Crusades?

Answer 17

The crusades were religious missions in the Holy Land (Jerusalem) aimed to take the land from the Muslims. They also wanted to unite the two faiths of the Roman Catholic and the Eastern Orthadox

Question 18

What did Europeans bring back from War.

Answer 18

The Europeans brought back new knowledge, trade routes and resources from the Crusades.

Question 19

What two things did the Crusades lead to? Explain them

Answer 19

The Crusades led to a treaty allowing Christians free pilgrimage to Jerusalem, it also lead to a crossroad of ideas between the Christians and Muslims.

Question 20

What was the Bubonic Plague’s nickname?

Answer 20

The Black Death

Question 21

One major cause of the plague was what and how did it spread?

Answer 21

Fleas, spread by close human contact, and when fleas went onto humans.

Question 22

How did the plague reach Europe?

Answer 22

A ship came from Asia to Sicily, Italy

Question 23

Why were the peasants revolting and in what did it happen?

Answer 23

The peasants revolted because they realized they were getting used and were underpaid.

Question 24

What was the result of the peasant’s revolt?

Answer 24

The result was, the peasants getting higher wages, and more rights.

Question 24

How did the peasant revolt demonstrate a change in worldviews?

Answer 24

It demonstrated a changed worldviews by giving the poor more power, labor shortages and high taxes, shifted balance between peasants and nobility, people were now travelling from Canterbury to London, radicalchange in beliefs (by the Preist) to social equity, they wanted social equity among others and money, they spent their time to get money and acheive social equity.

Question 25

In what way did trade affect the worldviews of Europe?

Answer 25

Trade made people leave their protection to get money, people were now travelling, they wanted money instead of land, the poor were now able to get the same things as the rich, new knowledge like school subjects were exposed, there were now multiple religions in most areas.

Question 26

What was exchanged along the Silk Road?

Answer 26

Many items like Silk, Spices, Mirrors,porcelain, valuable gems and metals, cotton, textiles, etc. They also traded many religious ideas and knowledge.

Question 27

Where was the Silk Road located?

Answer 27

The Silk Road wasn’t primarily located in one area, but it stretched from Europe, Northern Africa, Middle East, Asia and China?

Question 28

Who was at the center of the Silk Road?

Answer 28

The center of the Silk Road was the Middle East.

Question 28

What was the Silk Road?

Answer 28

The Silk Road was a network of trading routes connecting Asia and Europe.

Question 29

What, besides trade goods, passed along the trade routes?

Answer 29

Knowledge and Ideas were also traded along the Silk Road.

Question 29

What good did Italian Merchants bring in by sea? Give examples.

Answer 29

fruits, vegetabls and golds

Question 30

What was the most valuable trade good?

Answer 30

Black pepper was the most valuable

Question 31

What goods did Europeans use to trade?

Answer 31

cotton, wool, porcelains

Question 31

How were these goods transported?

Answer 31

via land with camels, and Mediterranean with boats and ships

Question 32

What factors contributed to the rise of trade between Western Europe and the East at the beginning of the Rennasiance?

Answer 32

New forms of knowledge being spread and new goods and ideas, the crusades also helped a bit

Question 33

what impact might increase trade and business have on a society’s worldview’s? Link your answer to specific events

Answer 33

People might value money and power more than other things and more goods would be traded

Question 34

feudalism eventually collapses. What were the two major reasons for the collapse of feudalism? Do not just list the event, be sure to explain how it helped lead to the collapse of feudalism.

Answer 34

The first one was the Silk Road because it opened more opportunities for serfs to live a better life by trading. The second one was the Black Death because it killed so many people that there wasn’t enough for the system to thrive.

Question 35

Why did people’s attitudes toward the church begin to change? You should be able to list and explain two things.

Answer 35

1. The bible was getting spread because of the printing press. People had the chance to read the bible instead of believing other people.
2. The Crusades cause a massive spread of religion from nation to nation

Question 36

Be able to provide information about how each of the following factors affected medieval society. How did these factors affect social structures? Referring to the feudal hierarchy, how did these factors begin to change the feudal hierarchy?

-The Black Death
-Changing Technology
-Increase in Wealth
-Rise of Towns
-Knowledge Transfer From Other Cultures
-The Crusades
-The Peasant Revolt

Answer 36

1. The Black Death killed 1/3 of Europe which made not enough serfs for the feudal society to thrive
2. New Technologies caused new and more efficient forms of farming and harvesting thrive.
3. People became more wealthy which made having to work these very hard jobs not so necessary
4. People left the country side and fiefdoms and instead moved into towns
5. People began learning new things from other cultures that impacted how they lived and what they believed in
6. The Crusades killed many people which also made feudalism fall
7. The Peasant Revolt demanded higher wages and more equality which overall finished the Feudalism Hierarchy