Middle Ages Questions

Question 1

When and how did the Middle Ages start

Answer 1

The middle ages started when the Roman Empire fell in 476 ad.

Question 2

Why was Europe such a violent place during the Middle Ages

Answer 2

Everyone was fighting for power, there was no food, and no safety.

Question 3

Who is thought to be a key figure in bringing stability to Europe? What event lead to the power of this figure and how did he bring stability?

Answer 3

The key figures name was William The Conqueror that brought stability to Europe. He brought peace to Europe by winning a battle and created the feudal system.

Question 4

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

Answer 4

There was one king, more lords,more knights, and even more peasants

Question 5

What did Feudalism provide?

Answer 5

It provided protection.

Question 6

What did a lord’s strength depend on?

Answer 6

The more land the more power.

Question 7

What two things did a lord needed to defend his property and people?

Answer 7

He needed knights and kings.

Question 8

How was life as a merchant

different than peasant or lord?

Answer 8

If they secretly lived in a village for 366 days.

Question 9

How could a regular serf escape from serfdom? Explain

Answer 9

A merchant was free and was able to make money.

Question 10

How did a guild control society?

Answer 10

They made prices.

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Because they all want to go to heaven and they would get punished if they don’t donate.

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Because they want to go to heaven.

Question 13

Why do you think people would want to become a Monk or Nun?

Answer 13

So that they can read.

Question 14

Describe 3 ways in which the church was central to people’s lives?

Answer 14

Because it would educate people, it would tell people what to do and the king.

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Because they could teach them incorrect information and get away with it and get money out of it.

Question 16

What were the Crusades? Who was involved? What were they fighting over? What was the main purpose of the Crusades?

Answer 16

The crusades were battles for Jesus. Both Military men and Ordinary men were involved. people that weren’t as fortunate money wise joined crusades

Question 17

What did Europeans bring back from war?

Answer 17

Travellers returned to their homes with new ideas and attitudes that led to new ways of thinking about their own lives and their own societies.

Question 18

What two things did the Crusades lead to? Explain them.

Answer 18

Opened up safer routes for thousands of religious pilgrims — men, women, and children — visited the holy sites and met different societies.

Question 19

What was the Bubonic Plague’s nickname?

Answer 19

The Black Death.

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Flea infested rats bite humans and then the bite transfers germs into the human.

Question 21

How did the plague reach Europe?

Answer 21

When ships from Asia arrived to Europe from the Black Sea it came with them.

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Taxes got higher so they could provide for the war and the hundred years war devastated the country side.

Question 23

What was the result of the peasants’ revolt?

Answer 23

Many peasants killed many nobles and burned many manors.

Question 24

How did the peasant revolt demonstrate a change in world-views?

Answer 24

It changed the way people saw the world because the way the poorer people got treated was way more unfair than it already was and that affected the way peoples world views.

Question 25

In what way did trade affect the worldviews of Europe?

Answer 25

It affected it on a positive way because people were more independent, they got more economically stable and got ideas from trading from different nations.

Question 26

What was exchanged along the Silk Road?

Answer 26

Things like jewels, rugs, silk, muslin, taffeta, and satin we’re all traded on the Silk Road.

Question 27

Where was the silk road located?

Answer 27

The Silk Road is a network of trading routes that stretches across Asia to Europe.

Question 28

What was the Silk Road?

Answer 28

The Silk Road is a network of trading routes that stretches across Asia to Europe.

Question 29

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

Answer 29

New ideas came from different nations when they traded with each other.