Topic 10 Lesson 5: Decline of Medieval Society

The Hundred Years' War was a long struggle over who would rule

• Spain.

• the Holy Roman Empire.

• England.

• France.

What was one major effect of the bubonic plague?

• It killed nearly one third of the population of Europe.

• It drove many poor people from cities to manors.

• It strengthened the power of the Church.

• It led to the expulsion of Muslims and Jews from Spain.

The spread of the Black Death from Asia to Europe was mostly the result of

• the Second Crusade.

• the Hundred Year's War.

• increased trade.

• pilgrimages to the Holy Land.

During the Black Death, people looking for scapegoats unjustly blamed

• peasants.

• the Inquisition.

• feudal landowners.

• Jews.

What was the main cause of the Peasants' Revolt?

• attempts to limit the movement and wages of serfs

• failure of authorities to end the bubonic plague

• lack of work for peasants on the manors

• demands for reform in the Church

Answer explanation

What is famine?

• an extreme scarcity of food

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

• a deadly infection spread by fleas that live on rats

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

What is the Hundred Years' War?

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

• a deadly infection spread by fleas that live on rats

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

• unsuccessful revolt by peasants against feudal lords in England in 1381

What was the Bubonic Plague?

• a deadly infection spread by fleas that live on rats

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

• unsuccessful revolt by peasants against feudal lords in England in 1381

• not visible

What is the Black Death?

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

• unsuccessful revolt by peasants against feudal lords in England in 1381

• not visible

• a closely interconnected group of people or things

What is the Peasants' Revolt?

• unsuccessful revolt by peasants against feudal lords in England in 1381

• not visible

• a closely interconnected group of people or things

• an extreme scarcity of food