WS Europe

Question 1

North Atlantic drift

Answer 1

Atlantic Sea Movement, is a powerful warm western boundary current within the Atlantic Ocean that extends the Gulf Stream northeastward.

Question 2

Monastery

Answer 2

A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone (hermits). A monastery generally includes a place reserved for prayer which may be a chapel, church, or temple,

Question 3

Charlemagne

Answer 3

was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and Emperor of the Carolingian Empire from 800, holding all these titles until his death in 814. Charlemagne succeeded in uniting the majority of Western Central Europe, and was the first recognized emperor to rule in the west after the fall of the Western Roman Empire approximately three centuries earlier.

Question 4

Holy Roman Empire

Answer 4

The Holy Roman Empire, also known as the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation after 1512, was a polity in Central and Western Europe, usually headed by the Holy Roman Emperor. It developed in the Early Middle Ages and lasted for almost 1,000 years until its dissolution in 1806

Question 5

Feudalism

Answer 5

Feudalism, also known as the feudal system, was a combination of legal, economic, military, cultural, and political customs that flourished in medieval Europe from the 9th to 15th centuries.

Question 6

Manorialism

Answer 6

Manorialism, also known as seigneurialism, the manor system or manorial system,[1][2] was the method of land ownership (or “tenure”) in parts of Europe, notably France and later England

Question 7

The Battle of Hastings/William The Conqueror

Answer 7

The Battle of Hastings in south-east England on 14 October 1066 saw the defeat of the Anglo-Saxon king Harold II ) by the invading Norman army led by William,
William claimed the throne of England had been promised to him by Harold’s predecessor

Question 8

Papacy

Answer 8

the office or authority of the Pope

Question 9

Monarch

Answer 9

A monarch is a head of state for life or until abdication, and therefore the head of state of a monarchy. A monarch may exercise the highest authority and power

Question 10

Magna Carta

Answer 10

is a royal charter[4][5] of rights agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215

Question 11

The Crusades

Answer 11

The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Christian Latin Church in the medieval period.