Middle Ages Test Preview

What was the maniorial system?

• when people didnt leave the land and made what they needed
• when the Muslim empires traded with Europe
• When knights owned land and gave it to lords to protect
• When people were missionaries

What is an effect of the Crusades?

• more people turned to feudalism
• trade increaded in Europe and Muslims controlled holy land
• laws were written down
• people didn't leave the manors

What is the correct order of the feudal social pyramid?

• serfs, nobles, knights, king
• king, knights, serfs, nobles
• knights, serfs, nobles, king
• king, nobles, knights, serfs

What did Justinian's Law Code do?

• organized Roman laws
• created laws 
• punished Christians
• created Germanic laws

What did the Byzantines do for Rome?

• Conquered them
• preserved their laws and culture
• protected them in the Crusades
• stopped them from being attacked

What was NOT a fact relating to the Black Death?

• an epidemic that killed millions
• occurred between 1340 and 1450
• made feudalism decline
• strenghtened feudalism

What is feudalism?

• when the pope chooses the leader
• no central government with lords holding land
• where serfs worked for very little pay
• vassals owned land and gave it to lords

Why did the Roman and Byzantine empires fall?

• they stopped trading
• they were Christian
• they spent too much money
• they were invaded

What were popes?

• head of the Roman Catholic Church and lost power
• the most powerful men in Europe in the later Middle Ages
• controlled trade
• head of the Byzantine Church

What country was kept isolated from Western culture by the Mongols?

• Turkey
• Greece
• Italy
• Russia