The Middle Ages

__________ were the hardest working members of the Church hierarchy. They worked in the Parish, holding church services, hearing confessions, visiting the sick and if they were educated teaching boys in the village.

• Archbishops

• Parish priests

• Bishops

• Cardinals

What was one of the main purposes of monasteries throughout Europe?

• They offered land and protection in exchange for loyalty and military service

• They converted villagers to Islam and Judaism

• They copied and preserved sacred Christian texts

• They worked the farmland of vassals in exchange for money

The center of life in a medieval community was the

• town hall

• temple

• market

• church

Many people in medieval Europe thought that storms, disease, and famine were

• sent as punishments by God.

• events that could not be prevented by prayer

• sent as punishments by the Church

• unimportant natural disasters

Christians who went on a pilgrimage visited

• priests

• castles

• holy sites

• doctors

In medieval Europe, the people most likely to be educated were

• merchants

• pilgrims

• crusaders

• clergy

What role did the monks in monasteries play in Europe during the Middle Ages?

• They encouraged people to live extravagantly.

• They preserved sacred Islamic writings and knowledge.

• They preserved sacred Christian writings and knowledge.

• They reused to help the sick and less fortunate.

Who is the leader of the Catholic Church?

• president

• king

• pope

• samurai

__________ was social structure that was organized like a pyramid.

• Pope

• Crusades

• Feudal System

• Stained Glass

_________ were farmers and were at the bottom of the pyramid.

• King

• Pope

• Serfs

• Bubonic Plague