western europe

Question 1

North Atlantic Drift

Answer 1

The warm waters of the Gulf Stream Feed into an ocean current.

Question 2

Monastery

Answer 2

A religious community.

Question 3

Holy Roman Empire

Answer 3

Duke Otto was elected king of Germany and became a powerful ruler. The pope crowned him emperor and Otto’s territory became the Holy Roman Empire.

Question 4

Feudalism

Answer 4

The system of service between a lord and the vassals who have sworn loyalty to the lord; political order; under feudalism, nobles governed and protected people in return for services.

Question 5

Manorialism

Answer 5

Where serfs and farmers worked and where the nobles and knights lived.

Question 6

William the conqueror

Answer 6

He was the first Norman king of England, He used the feudal system to govern, and wanted to learn about his new kingdom like deciding taxes.

Question 7

Monarch

Answer 7

a sovereign head of state, especially a king, queen, or emperor:

Question 8

Magna Carta

Answer 8

A document that placed limits on the king’s power, upheld the rights of freeman, it relied on the feudal idea that the king and the noble vassals both had certain rights and deities.

Question 9

Crusades

Answer 9

each of a series of medieval military expeditions made by Europeans to the Holy Land in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries:

Question 10

Pope Urban II

Answer 10

Helped the Byzantines with Military aid

Question 11

Saladin

Answer 11

sultan of Egypt and Syria 1174–93; Arabic name Salah-ad-Din Yusuf ibn-Ayyub. He reconquered Jerusalem from the Christians in 1187, but he was defeated by Richard the Lionheart at Arsuf in 1191.

Question 12

Richard I

Answer 12

Great military leader.

Question 13

The black death

Answer 13

killed almost all of the population of Europe, it was a illness that rats or bugs carried over and Europeans didn’t know how to wash.

Question 14

Hundred Years war

Answer 14

a war between France and England, conventionally dated 1337–1453.

Question 15

Joan of Arc

Answer 15

Joan of Arc, also known as Jeanne d’Arc, was a medieval peasant who claimed to receive visions from God12. She was a French military leader who turned the tide of the Hundred Years’ War in favor of a French victory123. She is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the coronation of Charles VII of France during the Hundred Years’ War4. She was famously martyred for standing by her claim of divine inspiration and later canonized as a saint

Question 16

Henry V

Answer 16

King of England
Henry V was the king of England from 1413 to 1422. He was the son of Henry IV. Henry V is regarded as a symbol of English patriotism, especially because of Shakespeare’s play Henry V. He was a fine military leader and won the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, which made England one of the strongest kingdoms in Europe.

Question 17

Reconquista

Answer 17

The Christian effort to take back the Iberian Peninsula

Question 18

Queen Isabella

Answer 18

Queen of Castile, Ferdinand’s wife.

Question 19

King Ferdinand

Answer 19

King of Castile and Aragon, Isabella’s Husband

Question 20

inquisition

Answer 20

an ecclesiastical tribunal established by Pope Gregory IX c.1232 for the suppression of heresy. It was active chiefly in northern Italy and southern France, becoming notorious for the use of torture. In 1542 the papal Inquisition was re-established to combat Protestantism, eventually becoming an organ of papal government.