Middle Ages/Dark Ages

Under the feudal system, kings and powerful nobles granted land to knights in return for

• powerful positions in the church

• Wives and slaves

• Loyalty an military services

• crops grown on the land

Church law is known as

• Codified law

• Roman Law

• Canon Law

• Common Law

Knights most commonly traded military service for

• Land

• Monetary reward

• Social status

• None of the above

What was the one institution that withstood the fall of the Roman Empire and had a very large influence on the daily lives of people during the middle ages.

• Greco-Roman Culture

• Protestant Church

• Roman Catholic Church

• Justinian Code

What was the MAIN goal of the Crusades?

• To spread Christianity throughout Europe, Asia and Africa

• To recover Jerusalem -the Holy Land- from the Muslims

• To improve trade among Europe, Asia and Africa

• To force the Byzantines to become Catholics

Which group was most responsible for bringing the bubonic plague to Europe?

• Invaders

• Crusaders

• Merchants/Traders

• French soldiers

The crusades caused which two institutions to lose power?

• The Church and feudalism

• Serfs and Kings

• The monarchy and the middle class

• Nations and the middle class

Why did people need protection during the early years of the Middle Ages?

• decreased interest in education and learning

• invasions by Muslims and Vikings and constant warfare made cities unsafe

• decreased trading as a result of increased crime

• stronger central governments protecting rural areas

The only king to success usefully unite an entire empire during the Middle Ages was _____________, king of the Franks.

• Ivan IV

• Charlemagne

• William of Normandy

• Frederick Barbosa

One of the lasting results of the Crusades:

• tension between Muslims and Christians

• the end of feudalism

• the arrival of the Black Death in Italy

• All of the above