Europe in the Middle Ages

The people who owned the land during the Middle Ages were called....

• Lords
• Manors
• Serfs
• Peasants

The social system or government system of exchanging land for loyalty and protection was called....

• socialism
• vassalism
• feudalism

Which person in the feudal hierarchy had the most power?

• peasants
• serfs
• monarchs
• knights

A highly skilled warrior who fought on horseback

• knight
• fief
• vassal
• serf

Dramatic decline in population, shortage of workers, disruption of trade, and feudal contracts ignored.
All of these were caused by...?

• Crusades
• Black Death
• Feudalism
• Manorialism

Popes and kings disagreed because they both thought they had the power to

• find a cure for the Black Death
• decide when to go on a Crusade
• pick bishops (church officials) 
• decide what was taught

Approximately 1/2-2/3 of the population of Europe died as a result of 

• Viking raids
• Crusades
• Bubonic Plague
• Great Schism

Who raised crops and tended to the livestock? (this group also paid taxes to the lords).

• Knights
• Monks
• Peasants
• Nobles

Joan of Arc led who into battle?

• England
• Spain
• France
• Germany

serf

• workers who were tied to the land on which they lived
• people who belonged to a religious order but lived and worked among the general public
• a knight who promised to support a lord in exchange for land
• religious men who lived apart from society in isolated communities