Medieval Europe

In Europe, _____had the greatest impact on Medieval Life because they provided both a food source and allowed for the spread of ideas through human movement.

• Rivers

• Mountains

• Lakes

• Oceans

Two or three huge fields were divided into strips, with each peasant family farming several strips. Each serf would get a fair share of the land.

• Serf farming

• Open-field system of farming

• Slash and Burn

• Feudalism

a rigid social class system of rights and obligations based on land ownership patterns. 

• Hierarchy

• Serfs

• Catholic Church

• Feudalism

Feudalism replaced a __________ empire after the fall of the Roman Empire in western Europe. 

• Large

• Localized

• Centralized

• Bad

an estate of land under the Feudal System

• Fief

• Feudalism

• Serf

• Manor

Who provided protection for serfs?

• Kings

• Lords

• Knights

• Serfs

In the Feudal System Political authority was ______

• Important

• Non-existant

• Centralized

• Localized

_____were large estates. Found in western and central Europe where the Lords ruled.

• Fiefs

• Manors

• Feudalism

• Catholic Church

Who was at the top of the social structure for the Catholic Church?

• Pope

• Cardinal

• Archbishop

• Bishop

A traveling preacher that took a vow of poverty

• Pope

• Monk

• Nun

• Friar