Feudal Europe Vocabulary

What are the Middle Ages?

• Golden Age of Islam

• 1,000 year period after the fall of Rome

• 500 year period before the present

• The last 2,000 years

This is the place monks lived?

• Church

• Monasteries

• Nunnery

• Yangtze

The political and social system that took over Europe in the Middle Ages.

• Democracy

• Capitalism

• Communism

• Feudalism

Knights lived by this code.

• Bushido

• Chivalry

• Constitution

• Hammurabi's Code

What do we call a highly trained, mounted (on a horse) warrior in the service of his lord?

• A night

• A knight

• A plight

• A sight

How would you define manor?

• The way in which you complete things

• A large estate, often including farms and a village, ruled by a lord

• A place of prayer and worship

• A group of people with the same occupation

How would you describe a monastery?

• A place of prayer and worship

• A church constructed during the Byzantine Empire

• A peasant who lived and worked on land of a lord or vassal

• A long poem recounting tales of heroes or warriors

What do we mean when we speak of a guild?

• A medieval organization of crafts workers or tradespeople

• Location where serfs met to discuss working conditions

• A main part of a noble’s land

• Samurai code of behavior

What is an epic poem?

• Greek poem that laments the dead

• Chinese short story depicting the life of the ruling family

• A place of prayer and worship

• A long poem recounting tales of heroes or warriors

What might we call a serf?

• Lesser noble who fought for his lord in return for land

• The knight’s code of honor

• A noble who owned land

• A person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord