The Middle Ages

Approximately when were the Middle Ages?

• late 1st to early 3rd centuries

• late 5th to late 15th centuries

• early 15th to late 20th centuries

• early 5th to early 15th centuries

The Middle Ages began with the...

• fall of Constantinople

• Roman Catholic Church

• fall of the Western Roman Empire

• Bubonic Plague

Categorize which factors were prevalent during the Middle Ages

Groups:

(a) Prevalent

,

(b) Not Prevalent

• lack of migration

• population decline

• decentralized authority

• invasion

• counterubanisation

• collapse of centralized authority

• small-scale movements

• population increase

• mass migration

What is manorialism?

• the political structure where knights and lower-status nobles owed military service to their overlords in return for the right to rent from lands and manors

• the operation of manors in villages

• peasants ability to own housing

• the organization of peasants into villages that owed rent and labour services to the nobles

Match the following

• military attempt for the Holy Land

• The Crusades

• knights offer services for housing

• manorialism

• peasants owed rent and labour services

• the Black Death

• bubonic plague causing mass deaths

• feudalism