Medieval Europe Vocabulary Practice

Match the following

• Middle Ages

• from the Latin for "middle age," relating to the middle ages.

• Feudalism

• a strict social system in which landowners grant people land or other rewards in exchange for military service or labor

• Reconquista

• period between ancient times and modern times, roughly from 500 to 1500 CE.

• Medieval

• the movement to drive the Muslims from Spain

Match the following

• Vassal

• people who are trained and ordained for religious services.

• Missionary

• in medieval Europe, a nobleman who received land from other nobleman in return for his service.

• Pope

• someone who tries to convert others to a particular religion

• Serf

• leader of the Roman Catholic Church

• Clergy

• a peasant who is legally bound to live and work on land owned by a lord

Match the following

• Monastery

• secluded religious community

• Sacrament

• sacred rites of Christianity, such as baptism and communion

• Manor

• estate granted by a lord to a vassal

• Fief

• self-sufficient estate of a medieval lord

Match the following

• Serf

• in medieval Europe, a nobleman who received land from other nobleman in return for his service.

• Vassal

• a peasant who is legally bound to live and work on land owned by a lord

• Manor

• self-sufficient estate of a medieval lord

• Knight

• code of conduct in medieval Europe that required knights to be brave, loyal, and honest

• Chivalry

• warrior mounted on a horseback

Match the following

• Excommunicate

• a strict social system in which landowners grant people land or other rewards in exchange for military service or labor

• Magna Carta

• a document that promised barons certain rights

• Feudalism

• the movement to drive the Muslims from Spain

• Crusades

• A series of military campaigns to establish Christian control over the holy land.

• Reconquista

• to exclude a person from a church or a religious community

Match the following

• Peasant's Revolt

• destructive war between France and England that lasted from 1337 to 1453

• Bubonic Plague

• a deadly infection spread by fleas that live on rats

• Hundred Years' War

• unsuccessful revolt by peasants against lords in England in 1381

• Black Death

• epidemic of the bubonic plague that killed as many as one third of all Europeans between 1347 and 1352

The (a)   called for the first crusade.

(a)   existed in both Europe and Japan during the Medieval Ages.

The (a)   charged his horse at the opposing army.

The lord refused to let the (a)   visit the city, and instead ordered him back to the fields.