Unit 4: Middle Ages, Renaissance, & Protestant Reformation

What caused the Dark Ages to begin?

• The Crusades

• The Fall of Rome

• The Black Death

• The Mongol Invasion

Raids from groups like the Vikings led people to turn to land owning nobles, which began this economic and political system

• Feudalism

• Authoritarianism

• Communism

• Transcendentalism

A _____ is a land grant given to a knight or peasant

• a gift

• a fief

• a right

Feudalism is a political and economic system. In the Middle Ages, it worked because it provided something that people needed. What did people need?

• Education

• Protection

• Freedom

Which of these best defines feudalism?

• A political and economic arrangement in which a lord provides protection in exchange for loyalty and service.
• A hierarchy designed to ensure only kings are protected.
• A system of exchange where laborers work for wages in the form of money.
• A social order with kings at the top and knights at the bottom.

Chivalry was

• a code of honor practiced by samurai
• a code of honor practiced by knights
• the right of kings to rule
• the right of serfs to be free

After the fall of the Roman Empire, Western Europe

• faced a decline in unity, trade and education.

• was conquered by the Byzantine Empire.

• became the leader in literature and technology.

• became the leader in literature and technology.

What was manorialism?

• The knights code of honor

• The economic system of feudalism

• The social structure of feudalism

• The jobs done by groups of Christian monks

What religion did the Frankish kingdom practice?

• Christianity

• Islam

• Hinduism

• Shintoism

Feudalism developed because of the _________.

• Need for protection and no central government.

• Need for trade routes and networks.

• need for a military to protect from the Muslims.

• need for more land to be distributed.