MVMS Middle Ages Review

What is a fief?

• large piece of land

• manor

• payment

What is a vassal?

• person who receives a piece of land

• another name for a king

• person who works on a ship

• person who works in the church

Agreements between those who owned the land and those who worked on the land were called?

• manor obligations

• feudal obligations

• vassals

• fiefs

Large farming communities that included manor houses, cultivated lands, woodlands, pastures, fields, and pastures were called?

• Manors

• feudalism

• vassals

• fiefs

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

Was there social mobility (could you move up) in the Manorial system?

• No

• Yes

What offered protection from invaders during the Middle Ages?

• fallow field

• castles

• mill

• tunnels

Granted certain rights to the people and said that the king must obey the law.

• Constitution
• Magna Carta
• Declaration of Independence

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

Caused by  rats carrying diseased fleas from infested trading ships and houses.

• Ebola
• Leprosy
• Black Death

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CCSS.RI.5.7

CCSS.RI.6.7

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

CCSS.RL.7.7

What was the main role of serfs in the feudal system?

• Laborers
• Making laws
• Trading goods

Which of these was a major effect of the Crusades on Europe?

• Reuniting the Roman Empire
• Everyone in the "East" became Christian
• Increased trade with non-European cultures