Topic3Lesson5DeclineofMedievalSociety

Decline of Medieval Society

Pg. 140-145

Guiding Questions

• How did the Hundred Years' War threaten the stability of medieval society?

• Why did the Black Death spread rapidly across Europe and Asia in the 1300s?

• What impact did the Black Death have on the medieval social order?

Famine and Warfare Strike

• The Hundred Years' War

• Deadly New Weapons

• Joan of Arc Inspires the French

Multiple Choice

Why did the Hundred Years' War decrease the value of armed knights?

• The increase of patriotism

• Joan of Arc outworked the knights

• Because of new deadly weapons.

• The Black Plague killed all of the knights.

What was the Black Death?

• The Spread of the Disease

• The Search for Scapegoats

Multiple Choice

What was the Black Death?

• The Hundred Years' War

• a deadly infection

• The new Medieval knights

• Joan of Arc's nickname

What were the effects of the Black Death?

• A Culture of Despair

• Economic Impact

• Effects on the Church

• Toward a New World

Multiple Select

What were the social effects of the Black Death?

• Culture of despair

• An increase of the feudal system

• The Peasants revolted

• The church increased in size

Quiz Time

Read each question carefully. Determine the best answer to the question from the four answer choices provided.

Multiple Choice

What was the main cause of the Peasants’ Revolt?

• attempts to limit the movement and wages of serfs

• failure of authorities to end the bubonic plague

• lack of work for peasants on the manors

• demands for reform in the Church

Multiple Choice

The Hundred Years’ War was a long struggle over who would rule

• Spain.

• the Holy Roman Empire.

• England.

• France.

Multiple Choice

What was one major effect of the bubonic plague?

• It killed nearly one third of the population of Europe.

• It drove many poor people from cities to manors.

• It strengthened the power of the Church.

• It led to the expulsion of Muslims and Jews from Spain.

Multiple Choice

The spread of the Black Death from Asia to Europe was mostly the result of

• the Second Crusade.

• the Hundred Year’s War.

• increased trade.

• pilgrimages to the Holy Land.

Multiple Choice

During the Black Death, people looking for scapegoats unjustly blamed

• peasants.

• the Inquisition.

• feudal landowners.

• Jews.