The Dark Ages

The period between 600 and 1450 CE is often called the Middle Ages in Europe because it came between the Roman Empire and the beginning of the Modern Age

• True

• False

What is Feudalism?

• A new job

• A way to settle disputes

• A political system based on reciprocal relationships between lords and vassals

What is a vassal?

• A leader of the military

• What the king was called

• A noble that serves a lord

The peasants worked the land in exchange for protection from bandits and other threats.

• True

• False

The Dark Ages were called "the dark ages" because sunlight was very week during this time

• True

• False

The Abbasids were conquered by

• The Mongols

• The Umayyads

In Europe during the Middle Ages, which system best met the people's economic?

• Roman Catholic church

• Military

• The Monarchy

• Feudalism

Arabic replaced Greek

• As the language of commerce and religion

• In culture and philosophy

• In poetry and medicine

• All the above

According to the picture, we could say that

• There was little freedom and absolutely no social mobility

• Peasants were free

• Peasants could work their way up to lords

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