Middle Ages Review Ch. 2-5

What happened to western Europe as a result of repeated invasions and warfare?

• People moved to the cities for a year and a day would become free.

• People left the cities and the Feudal System was created.

• Feudalism was created allowing more people traveled to the Americas

• The Colombian Exchange started after feudalism started.

Charlemagne is known for all of these achievements except...

• Unifying Christian Europe

• Building the great mosques of Paris

• Creating universities

• Being crowned the Holy Roman Emperor

Pope Leo crowned this person the first Holy Roman Emperor.

• Clovis

• Gregory I

• King George

• Charlemagne

This particular quality made Charlemagne a unique ruler for the Middle Ages.

• He valued education.

• He refused to settle court cases.

• He had one wife.

• He remained in one part of his kingdom He remained in one part of his kingdom

During the Middle Ages, this was the largest of the Christian denominations

• Roman Catholic Church

• Lutheran

• Eastern Orthodox

• Judaism Judaism

This individual is the supreme spiritual leader of the Roman Catholic Church.

• Arch-Bishop

• King

• Knight

• Pope

Under this system land (fiefs) was given in exchange for loyalty.

• The Crusades

• feudalism

• chivalry

• tournaments tournaments

These warriors pledged to defend their lords’ land in exchange for fiefs.

• Knights

• Serfs

• Lords

• Peasants

They were mainly peasants and could not lawfully leave the land; They were not slaves

• Serfs

• Lords

• Merchants

• Peasants

This contained houses, a church, and workshops, streams, and ponds.

• Fief

• tithe

• guild

• manor