The Middle Ages

What do we call it when nobles protect people in return for services, like fighting or farming?

• medievalism

• feudalism

• charity

• enterprise

Europe's kingdoms were divided into hundreds of feudal territories called:

• mansions

• Things

• fiefs

• counties

Knights followed rules of behavior called:

• chivalry

• feudalism

• the Thing

• medeivalism

What caused the Middle Ages to begin in the first place?

• a meteor

• terrible diseases scourged the land

• the Roman Empire fell apart

• sea levels rose

In the middle of all the chaos of the early Middle Ages, a powerful king arose among the Franks, and made things sort of stable for a while. He was called:

• King Arthur

• King Tut

• King Charlemagne

• King Martel

A guild is:

• a substance jewelers use to coat gold and make it really shiny

• a kind of money

• an organization of people belonging to a trade, like blacksmithing

• a king who is also a preist

The plague was caused by:

• sewage in the drinking water

• bacteria carried by fleas, which infested rats

• bad smells

• bad food

The plague spread by:

• traders in ships and caravans, which carried rats from one part of the world to another

• strong winds during winter time

• infected food being sold at markets, and carried to other villages and lands

• osmosis

Which of the following was an effect of the plague in Europe, in the 1300s?

• people could make money from labor, because there were fewer people available to do work.

• food prices went down, because there were fewer people who needed food

• trade declined because fewer people meant less demand for things

• all of these

A young French woman who led French forces to victory against the English.

• Brittany of Versailles

• Giselle of Paris

• Joan of Arc

• Voufou de Fou Fou