Unit 4: Middle Ages, Renaissance, & Protestant Reformation

Front

What caused the Dark Ages to begin? Options: The Crusades, The Fall of Rome, The Black Death, The Mongol Invasion

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The Fall of Rome

Front

Raids from groups like the Vikings led people to turn to land owning nobles, which began this economic and political system

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Feudalism

Front

A _____ is a land grant given to a knight or peasant

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a fief

Front

What did people need in the Middle Ages for feudalism to work?

Back

Protection

Front

Which of these best defines feudalism? Options: A political and economic arrangement in which a lord provides protection in exchange for loyalty and service., A hierarchy designed to ensure only kings are protected., A system of exchange where laborers work for wages in the form of money., A social order with kings at the top and knights at the bottom.

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A political and economic arrangement in which a lord provides protection in exchange for loyalty and service.

Front

Chivalry was

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a code of honor practiced by knights

Front

After the fall of the Roman Empire, Western Europe

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faced a decline in unity, trade and education.

Front

What was manorialism?

Back

The economic system of feudalism

Front

What religion did the Frankish kingdom practice?

Back

Christianity

Front

Feudalism developed because of the _________.

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Need for protection and no central government.