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What is the correct order of people in the Feudal system?

• King -> Nobles -> Knights -> Peasants

• Nobles -> Knights -> Peasants -> Slaves

• King -> Nobles -> Merchants -> Peasants

• King -> Knights -> Apprentices -> Peasants

What was feudalism?

• The main religion in Europe during the Middle Ages.

• The social structure of Europe during the Middle Ages

• The main language spoken in Europe during the Middle Ages.

• A method of farming used by medieval peasants.

Large farming communities that included manor houses, cultivated lands, woodlands, pastures, fields, and pastures were called?

• Manors

• feudalism

• vassals

• fiefs

What is a fief?

• large piece of land

• manor

• payment

Who was the head of the Christian Church in the Western Empire?

• Patriarch

• Pope

Which group made up the largest part of the population in feudal society?

•    Nobles
•    The king
•  Knights
•  Peasants

Europe became a feudal society because...

• the rarity of cash required land to be used as a payment for services.
• Europeans needed to defend themselves against constant raids and invasions.
• overpopulation required that a more efficient agricultural system be developed.
• skilled craftspeople had emerged as farming techniques improved.

Which institution had the most power during the Middle Ages?

• The Roman Empire
• The King of England
• The Protestant Preachers
• The Catholic Church

Why was the time immediately following the fall of Rome called the Dark Ages?

• Emperors kept tight control of the people.
• There was little formal education for the masses.
• Artwork from Greece, not Rome, survived.
• There was no building being done.

A widespread disease, or epidemic, spread by fleas on rats through Europe during the Middle Ages was known as:

• The Black Death/The Plague
• The Voice
• The Spanish Flu
• The Common Cold