Medieval Europe

A system by which people offer their services to a Lord in exchange for protection.

• Capitalist

• Monarchy

• Feudalism

• Hierarchy

A grant of land that a Lord made to a vassal.

• Kingdom

• Fief

• Concession

• Fjord

Who did peasants/serfs farm the land for or pay rent to.

• King

• Cardinal

• Pope

• Knights/Vassals

Governed relations between knights and the Church, treatment of enemies captured in war, and behavior toward aristocratic women.

• Chivalry

• Feudalism

• Fief

• Vassals

What key labor saving device was invented that made it possible to increase the food output of farms.

• Ballista

• Carruca

• Catapult

• Fjord

Who became the leader of England after the Battle of Hastings?

• Harald Hardrada

• Justinian

• William the Conqueror

• King Harold

During the reign of John II in 1215, nobles forced him to put his seal on a written document of their rights called the_________________.

• Magna Carta

• Common Law

• Constitution

• Bill of Rights

System of laws that replaced all other English law and became the law of the land.

• Hammurabi's Code

• Common Law

• Codex

• Brexit

Which factor did not contribute to the schism between the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church in 1054?

• The different use of language by Latin and Greek clerics

• The different use of icons by Latin and Greek clerics

• Beliefs about who should be leader of the church

• Beliefs about who should be worshipped

What is one way the Byzantine Empire influenced the development of Western European culture?

• The preservation of classical Greco Roman works affected Western European intellectual development.

• The innovation of algebra and the concept of zero changed accounting procedures in Western Europe.

• The conversion to the Eastern Orthodox Church changed Western European religious practices.

• The introduction of gunpowder transformed military conflicts between states in Western Europe