Early Medieval Era Review

The Dark Ages or Medieval Period began in 476 after the

• Fall of Rome by the Visigoths

• Fall of Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks

• Overthrow of the Ashikaga shogunate

• Fall of Jerusalem to Saladin and the Saracens

In feudalism who is at the top of the political order

• Knights

• King

• Lords

• Serfs

Mounted warriors who were responsible for protecting the lord and his domains were called

• Knights

• Serfs

• Clergy

• Popes

What was the main religion of Western Europe during the Medieval Period?

• Eastern Orthodoxy

• Catholicism

• Islam

• Judaism

What is Feudalism?

• A sustaining feud with a friend

• A social and political system of in which land was granted to vassals in exchange for military service

• A system of government that allowed a King to have ultimate say over the land

• A system of government where the Pope and King had equal rule over the land

Land granted by a lord to a vassal in exchange for loyalty and military service:

• fief

• duke

• feudalism

• knight

The medieval code of the knights, which stressed the knight's ability to protect the weak, the clergy, his lord, and king was called

• manor

• chivalry

• feudalism

• knight

A large fully self-sufficient estate, where most people lived in medieval Europe were called

• fief

• duke

• manor

• moat

The individual who formally united the Frankish speaking tribes in France and was the first Frankish king to be baptized a Catholic was

• Charles Martell

• Clovis

• Charlemagne

• St. Patrick

The Frankish general who defeated the Islamic Moors at the Battle of Tours in Southern France, this preserving Christianity in Europe was

• Clovis

• Charles Martell

• Charlemagne

• Alfred the Great