The Middle Ages Test

What is the name for the system of promises between lords and vassals that governed Europe in the Middle Ages?

• Christianity
• Feudalism
• Shinto
• Chivalry

Which answer choice shows the order of Feudal Society from highest to lowest?

• peasants, knights, nobles, king
• king, nobles, knights, peasants
• knights, king, peasants, serfs
• merchants, knights, commoners, serfs

Who was never a vassal in a Feudal relationship?

• king
• noble
• knight
• peasant

Who was never a lord in a Feudal relationship?

• king
• noble
• knight
• peasant

What process was developed by those who worked the land on manors?

• Mercantilism
• Triangular Trade
• Three-Field system
• Subsistence Farming

A widespread disease, or epidemic, spread by fleas on rats through Europe during the Middle Ages was known as:

• The Black Death/The Plague
• The Voice
• The Spanish Flu
• The Common Cold

The Black Death was spread by which of the following methods?

• Kissing!
• By sharing a cup
• It was air born
• Fleas on rats

A king or queen who is a supreme ruler is called a ____________.

• Top Dog
• Missionary
• Butterfly
• Monarch

What was a fief?

• A piece of land given to a vassal

• The currency of Medieval Europe

• The Medieval government

What was a serf?

• the level you were before you could be a knight

• a servant in the manor house

• a peasant who couldn't leave the land

• a nobleman