Middle Ages

What is a fief?

• A warrior who fights on a horseback

• Land granted to a vassal for military service

• A lower noble

• Land the king grants to peasants

What is a serf?

• A noble who cannot leave the farm they were born on

• A peasant who cannot own property and must work a nobles land

• A knight who serves a lord for life

• A peasant who pays the noble to farm the noble's land

What is a knight?

• A higher noble who owns a large amount of land

• A lower noble who trains for war in tournaments and jousting

• A lower noble who refuses to fight

• A peasant who fights in the noble's army

Under which system did landowning nobles govern and protect the people in return for services?

• Feudalism

• Mercantileism

• Protectionism

• Vassalism

Which of these were important inventions in farming in the Middle Ages? CHECK ALL THAT APPLY

• Crop rotation

• Wheeled plow and horse collar

• Bladed plow

• Bug resistant crops

Medieval knights followed rules called the code of

• the king

• the knight

• chivalry

• servitude

Charles Martel gave land to nobles because he needed to raise an army to fight against who?

• Muslims

• Vikings

• Nomads

• Byzantines

True or False: Medieval Europe was mostly ruled by a single King/Emperor

• True

• False

Medieval castle's moats were all of the following EXCEPT

• A defense so attackers could not easily get next to the walls

• A place to take baths in during times of peace

• A way to help the archers easily hit the enemy from the walls

• A man-made ditch filled with water

Which of the following BEST describes the life of a peasant?

• Filled with work year round, little money, and no chance for changing their social status

• Difficult but through hard work they could become knights or even higher nobles

• A few months of difficult work but most of the year was spent with their families

• Very harsh as they were bought and sold by different nobles