Medieval Europe Vocabulary Practice

Match the following

• Reconquista

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

• 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

• Medieval

• the movement to drive the Muslims from Spain

Match the following

• Clergy

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

• Missionary

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

• Vassal

• people who are trained and ordained for religious services.

• Pope

• someone who tries to convert others to a particular religion

• Serf

• leader of the Roman Catholic Church

Match the following

• Monastery

• sacred rites of Christianity, such as baptism and communion

• Sacrament

• secluded religious community

• Fief

• estate granted by a lord to a vassal

• Manor

• self-sufficient estate of a medieval lord

Match the following

• Serf

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

• Vassal

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

• Knight

• warrior mounted on a horseback

• Manor

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

• Chivalry

• self-sufficient estate of a medieval lord

Match the following

• Feudalism

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

• Crusades

• a document that promised barons certain rights

• Reconquista

• the movement to drive the Muslims from Spain

• Magna Carta

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

• Excommunicate

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

Match the following

• Black Death

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

• Bubonic Plague

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

• Peasant's Revolt

• a deadly infection spread by fleas that live on rats

• Hundred Years' War

• unsuccessful revolt by peasants against lords in England in 1381

The ____ called for the first crusade.

_________ existed in both Europe and Japan during the Medieval Ages.

The ______ charged his horse at the opposing army.

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