The Middle Ages

What group of people were legally bound to the land in a medieval form of slavery?

• griots

• Muslims

• serfs

• peasants

Learning declined during the last years of the western Roman Empire because

• the Muslim invaders did not value learning.

• the Germanic invaders did not read nor write Latin.

• the Byzantine Empire forbade them from learning.

• the invaders burned all the centers of learning in Rome.

What was the name of the eastern Roman Empire that continued to thrive during the middle ages?

• Constantinople

• Byzantine Empire

• the Seljuk Turks

• the Mongol Empire

Europeans turned to the landed aristocracy for protection against

• the Mongol army.

• the Germanic invasions.

• the Byzantine Empire.

• the Ming Dynasty.

Because the people of Europe turned to the landed aristocracy for protection against the Germanic invasions, a new social and political system developed which came to be called

• a guild system.

• heretical.

• the reconquista.

• the feudal system.

The foundation of the feudal system of the middle ages was

• a written feudal contract.

• an exchange of services.

• the Pax Romana.

• the Crusades.

The economic system that supported the exchange of services in the feudal system was

• communism.

• the Pax Romana.

• the manor system.

• feudalism.

The business associations that fixed prices and determined who could enter a trade were the

• guilds.

• printing presses.

• monks.

• samurai.

Each of the following helped form the new European civilization after the fall of Rome EXCEPT

• the Catholic Church.

• the Germanic invaders.

• the Seljuk Turks.

• legacy of the Roman Empire.

The series of Christian expeditions to regain the Holy Lands from the Muslims were called

• the Crusades.

• the Holy Expeditions.

• the Spanish Reconquista.

• Pax Mongolica.