middle ages vocab

Question 1

North atlantic drift

Answer 1

The North Atlantic drift is a warm ocean current off the coast of North America that is fed by the Gulf Stream, warms Europe.

Question 2

Monastery

Answer 2

A Medieval Monastery was an enclosed and sometimes remote community of monks led by an abbot who shunned worldly goods to live a simple life of prayer and devotion.

Question 3

Charlemagne

Answer 3

the king of the Franks and the founder of the Carolingian Empire. He also brought feudalism to europe

Question 4

Holy Roman Empire

Answer 4

he varying complex of lands in western and central Europe ruled by the Holy Roman emperor, a title held first by Frankish and then by German kings for 10 centuries.

Question 5

Feudalism

Answer 5

An imperial pyramid that has the most important person/people at the top and servants at the bottom

Question 6

Manoralism

Answer 6

political, economic, and social system by which the peasants of medieval Europe were rendered dependent on their land and on their lord.

Question 7

The Battle of Hastings

Answer 7

Battle that ended in the defeat of Harold II of England by William, duke of Normandy, and established the Normans as rulers of England

Question 8

William The conqueror

Answer 8

William I and Harold Godwinson fought over who would be king, and you know who won

Question 9

Monarch

Answer 9

an individual ruler who functions as head of state, like a king

Question 9

Papacy

Answer 9

the office and jurisdiction of the bishop of Rome, the pope, who presides over the Holy See (the central government) of the Roman Catholic Church.

Question 9

Magna Carta

Answer 9

the first document to put into writing the principle that the king and his government was not above the law

Question 10

The Crusades

Answer 10

Holy wars between the Muslims and the Christians

Christians Muslims
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They had a treaty in the last
battle

Question 11

Pope Urban III

Answer 11

cardinal and archbishop of Milan

Question 11

Saladin

Answer 11

A man who shocked the western world by defeating an army of the Christian Crusader states at the Battle of Hattin and then capturing Jerusalem in 1187.

Question 12

Richard I

Answer 12

He is remembered for being a chivalrous medieval king; for battling Saladin during the Crusades; and for rebelling against his father, Henry II

Question 12

The Black Death

Answer 12

A plague that took out millions and led to the decline in feudalism

Question 13

The Hundred years war

Answer 13

A series of conflicts fought between England and France over succession to the French throne. It was Henry V vs Joan of Arc

Question 14

Joan of Arc

Answer 14

She led the French army in a victory at Orléans in 1429 that repulsed an English attempt to conquer France during the Hundred Years’ War.

Question 15

Henry V

Answer 15

was the king of England (1413–22) of the house of Lancaster, son of Henry IV. As victor of the Battle of Agincourt (1415, in the Hundred Years’ War with France), he made England one of the strongest kingdoms in Europe.

Question 16

Reconquista

Answer 16

a centuries-long series of battles by Christian states to expel the Muslims (Moors), who from the 8th century ruled most of the Iberian Peninsula.

Question 17

Queen Isabella

Answer 17

unified Spain through her marriage to Ferdinand II of Aragon, and she financed the expedition of Christopher Columbus, leading to the discovery of the Americas.

Question 18

King Ferdinand

Answer 18

Ferdinand II was the king of Aragon and king of Castile (as Ferdinand V) from 1479, joint sovereign with Queen Isabella I.

Question 19

Inquisition

Answer 19

a powerful office set up within the Catholic Church to root out and punish people who weren’t Christian

Question 20

Iberian Peninsula

Answer 20

fragmentation of kingdoms and border disputes that characterized Early Modern Europe