Questions

Question 1

When did the Middle Ages begin and with what event?

Answer 1

The middle ages began when the roman empire fell. (september 4, 476 AD).

Question 2

Why did Europe become such a violent place during the Early Middle Ages?

Answer 2

Everyone was fighting for power. They all wanted power.

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

William the Conqueror was said to be a key figure by bringing peace by winning the battle of Hastings and creating the feudal system.

Question 4

Feudalism involved obligations among various groups within the feudal hierarchy. Create a chart to show the rights and responsibilities of each group.

Answer 4

The pope controlled the king.
the king had the most power
nobbles
knights- protection for peasants and king
serfs/ peasants- most people were in this group. trade food for protection. have to give food to the king.

Question 5

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

Answer 5

The feudalism hierarchy was drawn in the pyramid according to population. 1 king more lords, more knights, and the most serfs.

Question 6

What did Feudalism provide?

Answer 6

The feudalism system gave protection to people.

Question 7

What did a lord’s strength depend on?

Answer 7

The lord’s strength depends on the amount of land he owned.

Question 8

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

Answer 8

He needed knights and guards to protect his land and people.

Question 9

How could a regular serf escape from serfdom? Explain.

Answer 9

If the serfs could live for a year and one day in the villages they became freemen and could do anything they wanted.

Question 10

How was life as a merchant different than peasant or lord?

Answer 10

Merchants were aloud to be free and sell things while peasants couldn’t. The lord didn’t have to work at all. He would get taxes from his people.

Question 11

How did a guild control society?

Answer 11

They control of goods said standards on quality.

Question 12

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

Answer 12

They all wanted a good afterlife.

Question 13

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

Answer 13

They thought they would go to hell and everyone wanted to have a good afterlife.

Question 14

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

Answer 14

They might have wanted to be literate or they wanted to have a better after life.

Question 15

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

Answer 15

The church told people what their beliefs should be. They spent a lot of time in the church learning about religion. Also people gave money to the church in order for a better afterlife.

Question 16

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

Answer 16

It made people illiterate meaning they couldn’t read or write. Since the church people could they had more power because they could read and write. They told people what they wanted them to believe and not was really written.

Question 17

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

Answer 17

Even though eastern and western christian had a fractured relationship, the Pope called Western Europe to take arms and fight back to take control of the Holy Land. it was the Muslims vs the Christians.

Question 18

What did Europeans bring back from war?

Answer 18

Wealth, power, respect and they believed they got a better afterlife. They also got new Ideas from leaving their land and traveling.

Question 19

What was the Bubonic Plague’s nickname?

Answer 19

the black death or Blue sickness

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Bubonic plague: There is a 30-75% chance of death after getting it. You can only get it if a rat bites you. It gives you fleas that multiply in warmth and died in cold weather. 4 out of 5 people die within 8 days of getting bitten.

Question 21

How did the plague reach Europe?

Answer 21

they arrived from rats that had boarded European trade ships and were brought back along with the stuff they had gotten. Fleas from rats that came into Europe during trade.

Question 22

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

Answer 22

peasants wants were ignored.

• Peasants were tired of being treated badly and getting underpaid.
• High rents and taxes were placed on peasants.
• They were being underpaid for farming the land during the Black Plague.
• They only got 10% of what they earned.

Question 23

What was the result of the peasants’ revolt?

Answer 23

at was the outcome of the peasants’ revolt?
Many nobles were killed and many manors were burned.
Toll taxes where lowered and no one worked the land anymore.
They got free of the peasant title

Question 24

How did the peasant revolt demonstrate a change in worldviews?

Answer 24

they began to stop believing the pope and church they also began to think they were worth something.

Question 25

In what way did trade affect the worldviews of Europe?

Answer 25

It gave them new food ideas and ideas as they traveled to the Middle East to get their traded good.

Question 26

What two things did the Crusades lead to? Explain them

Answer 26

The crusades lead to power and wealth. They also got to leave their land and got new ideas by doing so.

Question 27

What was exchanged along the Silk Road?

Answer 27

Silk, spices, jewels, and other valued goods.

Question 28

Where was the silk road located?

Answer 28

It went all the way from Asia to Europe.

Question 29

Who was at the center of the silk road?

Answer 29

The Middle East was at the center of the silk road.

Question 30

What was the Silk Road?

Answer 30

A network of trading routes that stretches across Asia to Europe.

Question 31

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

Answer 31

Animals such as camels and horses.

Question 32

What goods did Italian merchants bring in by sea? Give examples.

Answer 32

Iron, wool, timber and fur.

Question 33

What was the most valuable trade good?

Answer 33

pepper were the most valued goods.

Question 34

What goods did Europeans use to trade?

Answer 34

Iron, salt and copper.

Question 35

How were these goods transported?

Answer 35

They were transported by boat, horse and wagon and by people.

Question 36

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

Answer 36

The crusades happened and people were dying. Taxes rose extremely high. Peasants revolted so Europe was losing a lot of money. They began to trade with Asia so that they could get more money.

Question 37

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

Answer 37

They might think that they are worth more. The country will have more money and things available making it possible to fix and recreate things. For example, they have the same schedule expect people in the crusades did not have the church to tell them time.

Question 38

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

Answer 38

after the crusades people got new ideas they began to learn how to read and translate the bible themselves no longer believing in the church.