Ch.9 - Emerging Europe & the Byzantine Empire

Under Germanic law, if an accused person was unharmed after a physical trial, or ____, he or she was presumed innocent.

• brainwashing
• gauntlet
• ordeal
• quartering

____ was a code of ethics that knights were supposed to uphold

• Chivalry 
• The fief 
• The Book of the Dead
• Vassalage

Under early Germanic law, a wrongdoer had to pay ____, or “money for a man,” to the family of the person he injured or killed

• kronen
• bieren 
• wergild 
• munster

The ____ was a set of unwritten rules that determined the relationship between a lord and his vassal.

•  fief
•  feudal contract
• vassalage 
• Book of the Dead

The Middle Ages came after the fall of which great empire in Europe? 

• Greek Empire
• Egyptian Empire
• Roman Empire
• Chinese Empire 

A King gave his most important lord fiefs, which were

• grants of land
• large celebrationsq
• war horses
• market licnese 

In exchange for land, a _______ pledged service to a greater lord?

• Chivalry

• Fief

• Knight

• Vassal

These raiders invaded Europe in 1066 and defeated England.  The first time a foreign enemy ever invaded and defeated England.

• Vikings
• clovis
• Buccaneers
• Pirates

__________ required knights to be brave, loyal, and true to their word?

• Chivalry
• Fief
• Knight
• Vassal

Who was the great king of the Franks and emperor of the Holy Roman Empire?

• Charlemagne
• William the Conqueror
• King Henry IV
• Pope Gregory VII