power of the church

Question 1

What is Feudalism?

Answer 1

Lords, vassals (nobles), knights, serfs

Question 2

Difference between serfs and peasants

West europe? Eastern Europe?

Answer 2

west europe: free peasants worked for lords and they could leave if they wanted to

eastern europe: Serfs were owned by their lords and could not leave land

Question 3

Why was the church so powerful?

Answer 3

They had control of AFTERLIFE and they also owned lots of land

Question 4

What are the 7 sacrements? what is it for?

Answer 4

If you don’t do them you go to hell

Mandatory: 
Baptism
Confirmation
Communion 
Confession 

Holy matrimony
Priest/Nun
last rites

Question 5

Baptism

Answer 5

sprinkling water on infants head symbolizing purification and admission into the church

Question 6

Confiramtion

Answer 6

Taking classes and learning about the church

Question 7

Communion

Answer 7

taking bread (christ’s body) and wine (blood)

Question 8

Confession

Answer 8

Confessed sins to a priest

Question 9

Holy matrimony

Answer 9

getting married in church

Question 10

priest/nun

Answer 10

becoming priest or a nun

Question 11

last rites

Answer 11

having priests bless you before you die

Question 12

Excommunication and why is it important

Answer 12

Excluding one from the participation in the sacrements. it is important because people thought they wouldn’t be able to go to heaven so it convinced people to follow the church

Question 13

interdict

Answer 13

Pope’s power to put an interdict on a king’s country stating they could not take sacraments.

Happened often when king did pope wrong.

Gave pope TREMENDOUS power over kings.

Question 14

Usury

Answer 14

church’s Loans at high interest, taking advantages of others’ misfortune

Question 15

What are monastries and what did people there do?

Answer 15

place where monks and nuns stayed to pray.
They wrote the bible by hand. They kept some of the Greek and Roman writings because they hid the truth.
ALso provided services for the poor.