Feudalism Review

Which event marks the beginning of the Medieval Period, also known as the Dark Ages?

• Siege of Constantinople

• Fall of the Western Roman Empire

• Discovery of the Americas

• Invention of gunpowder

During the Middle Ages, the majority of Western Europe practiced which form of Christianity?

• Eastern Orthodoxy

• Roman Catholicism

• Lutheranism

• Anglicanism

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 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

An individual who receives a fief and under the protection of a lord to whom he has vowed loyalty and promise of military service.

• fief

• vassal

• knight

• serf

Members of the bottom of feudal society, who were agricultural laborers who stayed on and worked the lord's land in exchange for the protection the lord and his knights could provide.

• vassal

• serf

• fief

• knight