Medieval Europe 2

If you were a peasant in Western Europe in the 1100's, you would: (a) be wealthy(b) be a member of a prosperous middle class; (c) own your own land; (d) poor and living on someone else's property.

• be wealthy

• be a member of a properous middle class

• own you own land

• be poor and be living on someone else's property

Results of the plague included all of the following EXCEPT

• Millions died from the disease

• Transfer of wealth to people who normally would not have inherited it

• Worker’s services became more valuable

• Society became less mobile

Community life in western Europe during the Middle Ages centered around...

• the theater

• the church

• the school

• the town hall

A king gave his most important lords fiefs, which were...

• trade ships

• war horses

• land grants

• large celebrations

What does medieval mean?

• prehistoric

• very evil

• middle ages

• modern times

The First Crusade was launched with the stated goal of

• Ejecting the Moors from Spain

• Opening a trade route to China

• Preventing the Muslim invasion of Europe

• Capturing Jerusalem from the Muslims

Why did feudalism develop in Western Europe?

• To bring some order out of the chaos created by the fall of Rome.

• So people in the cities would know who was running the government.

• The church was losing power and failed to protect the lords.

• Barbarians created this system to help control Rome.

Vocabulary: Choose the best answer for each item.

Grant of land in return for a pledge to provide military service.

• Vassal

• Renaissance

• Feudalism

• Fief

• Crusades

Vocabulary: Choose the best answer for each item.

A period of intense artistic and intellectual activity, said to be the "rebirth" of Greco-Roman culture.

• Vassal

• Renaissance

• Feudalism

• Fief

• Crusades

This illustration of a medieval manor shows that-

• main crop was barley

• manor was economically self-sufficiet

• serfs owned the fallow land

• church was unimportant to daily life