Middle Ages

Where did the Vikings come from?

• Ireland
• Scandanavia
• France
• Australia

What did Vikings use to sail the seas?

• live ships
• long ships
• short ships
• narrow ships

Why were the long ships so effective?

• They could carry a lot of loot from raids.
• They could travel in shallow water and were really fast.
• They could carry a lot of people.
• They were unsinkable

How did most Vikings try to get rich?

• By looting other people

• By working as a trader or merchant

• By farming

• By making quality goods

Which words best describe the Vikings?

• Academic & Political, scholars and philosophers

• Conquerors & Peaceful, friendly men and women

• Invaders & Settlers, Explorers and traders

What is a serf?

• A noble who cannot leave the farm they were born on

• A peasant who cannot own property and must work a nobles land

• A knight who serves a lord for life

• A peasant who pays the noble to farm the noble's land

Under which system did landowning nobles govern and protect the people in return for services?

• Feudalism

• Mercantileism

• Protectionism

• Vassalism

Place the following events in sequence:
A.) The feudal system dominates Western Europe;
B.) Augustus Caesar establishes the Roman Empire;
C.) The Black Plague wipes out almost half the European population

• C, B, A
• B, C, A
• B, A, C
• C, A, B

Which of the following contributed most to the end of the feudal system?

• The discovery of the Americas
• Famine and disease
• A major war between France and Germany
• The foundation of large universities

Feudalism

• a social system in which people worked and fought for nobles who gave them protection and the use of land in return

• a country whose ruler is a king or queen

• of, or relating to the Middle Ages: of, or relating to the period of European history from about A.D. 500 to about 1500

• the head of the Roman Catholic Church