Middle Ages

The people at the bottom of the feudal pyramid

• peasants/serfs

• King

• Nobles and Lords

• Knights and Vassals

• Pope

How many periods do historians divide the middle ages into

• five

• three

• two

• one

The middle ages are also called

• dark ages

• modern age

• dinosaur age

• ice age

The head of the Roman Catholic Church

• King

• Queen

• Vassal

• Pope

the leader of the Franks from 768 to 814 C.E., who unified most of the Christian lands of Europe into a single empire

• Pope Francis

• Charlemagne

• King Edward

• William the Conqueror

the economic and political system of medieval Europe in which people exchanged loyalty and labor for a lord's protection

• fiefs

• serfs

• Charlemagne

• feudalism

land granted by a lord to a vassal in exchange for loyalty and service

• fief

• serf

• feudalism

• reign

the period of time during which a king or other monarch rules*

• reign

• serf

• fief

• feudalism

the religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus

• Islam

• Buddhism

• Christianity

• Judaism

a person who reigns over a kingdom or an empire

• prime minister

• monarch

• president

• priest