Chapter 7 Review: The Rise of Europe

A Feudal Contract is a...

• System in which a powerful lord granted a vassal a fief.

• Decentralized political structure in which powerful lords divided their landholdings among lesser lords.

• Mock battle where knights practiced their skills.

• Document that set out the rights & privileges of a town.

Answer explanation

Remember: the Fedual Contract is what sets out what the vassal owes his lord in return for the gifted land, like 40 days of military service!

Feudalism is the decentralized political structure, NOT the feudal contract. While similar, they're not the same. The Feudal Contract is a system within the political structure of Feudalism.

Chivalry only applied to which of the following groups?

• Women

• Commoners

• Serfs

• Nobles

Charlemagne being crowned the Roman emperor by Pope Leo III was significant because he was…

• Viking

• Jewish

• Germanic

• Roman

Answer explanation

To the Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire, Charlemagne is nothing more than a barbarian because he is Frankish (i.e. Germanic). The Eastern Roman empire was much more traditionally "Roman" than the new Holy Roman Empire would ever be.

Emperor of the Romans = Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.

Credit was adopted by Europeans from ______merchants.

• Jewish

• Muslim

• Roman

• None of the above. Europeans invented credit on their own.

The Treaty of Verdun divided Charlemagne’s empire into _______ regions.

• Three (3)

• It didn’t divide it, Charlemagne’s empire stayed whole until after WWII.

• Four (4)

• None of the above. It was actually called the Treaty of Tours.

Answer explanation

The Treaty of Tours does't exist for us yet! We might talk about it in the future.

The Battle of Tours is what Charles Martel wins, stopping Muslim expansion into Western Europe.

Which of the following phrases is used to describe the political, social, & economic decline experienced by Western Europe after the collapse of Rome?

• The Middle Ages

• The Medieval Times

• The Troubles

• The Dark Ages

Answer explanation

Technically, it is now called the Early Middle Ages but where is the fun in that.

The peasants/serfs who work the land belong to what?

• The Fief (estate, manor)

• The King

• They belonged to themselves.

• Their lord

Answer explanation

Remember: peasants/serfs are tied to the land by their labor. They are not slaves, so they are not owned by people, which is why they would not belong to the king in any situation. If they live on land that belongs to the king, then they simply belong to the land that the king is in charge of.

Iron plows & horses were part of the ___________ revolution.

• Commercial

• Agricultural

• Russian

• Medieval

Muslim armies were stopped by the army of which of the following individuals?

• Charlemagne

• Clovis

• Charles Martel

• Eleanor of Aquitaine

Answer explanation

Charles Martel was never a king of the Franks. He was refered to as the Mayor of the Palace.

The Truce of God was established by which Medieval power as an attempt to stop warfare among nobles?

• Jewish Synagogues

• The King, who was at the top of Feudal power structures

• The armed merchant caravans

• The Christian Church