Medieval Europe Vocabulary Practice

Match the following

• Middle Ages

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

• Reconquista

• the movement to drive the Muslims from Spain

• Medieval

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

• Feudalism

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

Match the following

• Missionary

• leader of the Roman Catholic Church

• Clergy

• people who are trained and ordained for religious services.

• Pope

• someone who tries to convert others to a particular religion

• Vassal

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

• Serf

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

Match the following

• Sacrament

• self-sufficient estate of a medieval lord

• Fief

• secluded religious community

• Manor

• sacred rites of Christianity, such as baptism and communion

• Monastery

• estate granted by a lord to a vassal

Match the following

• Knight

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

• Manor

• warrior mounted on a horseback

• Vassal

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

• Serf

• self-sufficient estate of a medieval lord

• Chivalry

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

Match the following

• Feudalism

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

• Reconquista

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

• Crusades

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

• Magna Carta

• a document that promised barons certain rights

• Excommunicate

• the movement to drive the Muslims from Spain

Match the following

• Peasant's Revolt

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

• Black Death

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

• 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

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.