Europe in the Middle Ages

What is a missionary?

• A person who lives in a manor

• A person who lives in a monastery.

• A person who tires to convert others to a particular religion.

• A person who moves from place to place and has no home.

What is a monastery?

• A church

• a secluded community where men called monks live.

• a religious community where nuns live.

• a castle.

What was manor life like for serfs and peasants?

• No different than the nobles

• Difficult they had to work hard and had no freedoms

• Free and full of enjoyable things

• More like the life of a knight.

What was manor life for serfs and peasants?

• Fun they didn't have to do anything

• Rough, they had to work hard and had no freedom.

• They worked but still had some freedoms

• They were held captive in a cave

The physical features of Earth's surface are called its

• farmland

• boundaries

• topography

• peninsulas

Most of Europe's early cities developed near

• major rivers

• the Black Sea

• mountains

• central plains

What did Charlemagne think would help unite his kingdom?

• increasing conquests

• improving roads

• creating schools

• omitting the papacy

Charlemagne worked with the Catholic Church or clergy to

• Charlemagne worked with the Catholic Church or clergy to

• spread Christianity.

• divide his empire

• crown a new emperor.

noble who served a lord of a higher rank

• serf

• peasant

• vasssal

• pope

Which of these groups followed a code of chivalry?

• knights

• vassals

• lords

• monks