Middle Ages Formative Practice

What is the name for the system of promises between lords and vassals that governed Europe in the Middle Ages?

• Christianity
• Feudalism
• Shinto
• Chivalry

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

• peasants, knights, nobles, king
• king, nobles, knights, peasants
• knights, king, peasants, serfs
• merchants, knights, commoners, serfs

A nobleman who was trained as a warrior and lived their live according to a code of chivalry

• Samurai

• Navy

• Vassal

• Knight

Europe became a feudal society because...

• the rarity of cash required land to be used as a payment for services.
• Europeans needed to defend themselves against constant raids and invasions.
• overpopulation required that a more efficient agricultural system be developed.
• skilled craftspeople had emerged as farming techniques improved.

The Middle Ages began after what event?

• Fall of Rome

• Renassaince

• Peloponesian War

• World War I

A period that lasted from AD 500 to 1500

• monks

• monasteries

• Middle Ages

• Benedict

communities of monks

• Middle Ages

• monasteries

• monks

• medieval

King of the Franks in 700 AD

• Benedict

• Charlemagne

• Clovis

• Magyar

system of promises that governed the relationships between lords and vassals

• communism

• feudalism

• capitalism

• monarchy

workers who were tied to the land on which they lived and farmed

• knights

• vassals

• serfs

• lords