Rise of Europe

Question 1

Medieval

Answer 1

relating to the culture of Europe during the Middle Ages

Question 2

Franks

Answer 2

a Germanic tribe that conquered present-day France and neighboring lands in the 400s

Question 3

Clovis

Answer 3

king of the Franks who established a kingdom in Western Europe after the fall of the Roman empire

Question 4

Charles Martel

Answer 4

a Frankish leader who rallied warriors to push Muslims out of France

Question 5

Battle of Tours

Answer 5

a battle in which Christians stopped the Muslim advance into Western Europe

Question 6

Charlemagne

Answer 6

the grandson of Charles Martel; he briefly united Western Europe when he built an empire stretching across France and Germany

Question 7

Magyars

Answer 7

nomadic people who overran Eastern Europe and parts of Western Europe after A.D. 900

Question 8

Vikings

Answer 8

farmers and expert sailors from Scandinavia who raided European river towns starting in the late 700s

Question 9

Feudalism

Answer 9

a loosely organized system of rule in which powerful local lords divided their landholdings among lesser lords

Question 10

Vassal

Answer 10

a lesser lord in the system of feudalism

Question 11

feudal contract

Answer 11

an exchange of pledges that created the political and economic relationship between lords and vassals

Question 12

fief

Answer 12

an estate

Question 13

knight

Answer 13

a mounted warrior

Question 14

tournament

Answer 14

A mock battle fought by knights

Question 15

Chivalry

Answer 15

a code of conduct adopted by knights which required them to be brave, loyal, and true to their word

Question 16

troubadour

Answer 16

a wandering musician

Question 17

manor

Answer 17

a lord’s estate

Question 18

serf

Answer 18

peasant on a manor

Question 19

sacrament

Answer 19

a sacred right of the church

Question 20

Benedictine Rule

Answer 20

regulations for monastic life created by a monk named Benedict and used by monasteries and convents across Europe

Question 21

secular

Answer 21

nonreligious; having to do with the worldly, rather than the religious

Question 22

papal supremacy

Answer 22

authority of the pope over all secular rulers, including kings and emperors

Question 23

canon law

Answer 23

the body of laws developed by the Church

Question 24

excommunication

Answer 24

the penalty of forbidding someone from receiving the sacraments or a Christian burial

Question 25

interdict

Answer 25

an order excluding an entire town, region, or kingdom from receiving most sacraments and Christian burial

Question 26

friar

Answer 26

a monk who traveled and preached to the poor

Question 27

St. Francis

Answer 27

a wealthy Italian who gave up his comfortable life and founded the first order of friars

Question 28

charter

Answer 28

a written document that set out the rights and privileges of a town

Question 29

capital

Answer 29

money for invesment

Question 30

partnership

Answer 30

a group of merchants who pooled their funds to finance a large-scale venture

Question 31

tenant farmer

Answer 31

a farmer who paid rent for his land

Question 32

middle class

Answer 32

a new social class ranked between nobles and peasants

Question 33

guild

Answer 33

an association of merchants or artisans

Question 34

apprentice

Answer 34

a trainee

Question 35

journeyman

Answer 35

a salaried worker