Middle Ages/ Renaissance LEAP Review

During the Middle Ages, who would have been considered the most powerful person in Europe?

• the Pope

• a king

• the richest merchant

• Knights

owed their time and effort to providing food for the kingdom

• King

• Nobles

• Knights

• Peasants

owed lives to military service and protected the kingdom

• King

• Nobles

• Knights

• Peasants

painted the Mona Lisa

• Leonardo da Vinci

• William Shakespeare

• Andreas Versalius

A contract between the lords and vassals is a key part of

• the structure of the Crusades

• the structure of feudalism

• the structure of the Magna Carta

• the structure of the church

What is feudalism?

• A system where peasants ruled the kingdoms of Europe

• A system based on loyalty and obligation that brought social order to Europe

• A kingdom where kings gained too much power

What document created a Parliament, and will  allow more rights to lower classes in England?

• Edict of Milan
• Great Schism 1054
• Magna Carta
• Justinians Code

What drastic world changing event led to the fall of the Feudal System?

• Crusades
• 100 Years War
• Holocaust
• Black Death

What was at the center of the medieval world?

• Religion and Church

• Plague

• Jerusalem

• Serfdom

What is feudalism?

• A political, economic, and social system that tied together Kings, Lords, and Peasants in a relationship based on loyalty and land.
• An organized system of knights jousting in an arena.
• A way of organizing Greek and Roman society after the fall of the Byzantine Empire.
• A pyramid.