Vocabulary: WH 5-3 The Middle Ages

Which answer choice shows the order of a Feudal Society from highest to lowest?

• peasants, knights, nobles, king

• king, nobles, knights, peasants

• knights, king, peasants, serfs

• merchants, knights, commoners, serfs

The Middle Ages began after what event?

• Fall of Rome

• Renaissance

• Peloponnesian War

• World War I

 A long series of wars between Christians & Muslims in the Holy Land

• Crusades

• Hundred Years War

• Middle Ages

• Bubonic Plague

religious men who lived in isolated communities called monasteries

• serfs

• monks

• knights

• lords

a deadly plague that swept through Europe from 1347-1351 CE

• Black Death

• smallpox

• flu

• avian flu

a document forced upon the King that limited the king's power and gave people he right to a fair trial

• The Declaration of Independence

• The Declaration of the Rights of Man

• The Magna Carta

• The Papal Laws

a piece of land, given in exchange for loyalty and protection

• Manor

• Acre

• Estate

• Fief

religious women who lived in isolated communities called convents

• nuns

• sororities

• starlets

• fiefs

What process was developed by those who worked the land on manors?

• Mercantilism
• Triangular Trade
• Three-Field system
• Subsistence Farming

a law making group who advised the King of England, and limited his power

• Habeas Corpus

• Parliament

• Barons

• Monarchs