Middle Ages Quiz

The Middle Ages began ...

• in the Arabian Peninsula

• when Muhammad died.

• after the fall of the Roman Empire.

• on the Arabian Peninsula

What is the name for the system of promises between lords and serfs that governed Europe in the Middle Ages?

• Christianity

• Feudalism

• Shinto

• Chivalry

Which answer choice shows the order of Feudal Society from highest to lowest?

• peasants, knights, nobles, king

• king, nobles, knights, peasants

• knights, king, peasants, serfs

• merchants, knights, commoners, serfs

Who was the Germanic king that united all Franks under one kingdom in 511?

• Henry VIII

• Carloman

• Charlemagne

• Clovis

__________ was crowned King of the Franks by the Pope for fighting off the __________ near Rome.

• Carloman, Muslims

• Pepin the Short, Lombards

• Henry III, Jews

What king took over in 771. He fought Muslims and other Germanic tribes, conquered new lands and became the most powerful king in Western Europe. He was also crowned the Holy Roman emperor by Pope Leo as he reunited all of Western Europe.

• Carloman

• Henry IV

• Pepin the Short

• Charlemagne

What is a Fief?

• land given to the king by a knight

• land granted by a peasant

• land given to a peasant

• land granted to a vassal by a lord

What is a Knight (in Feudal Europe)?

• a phenomenal athlete

• a specially trained soldier who fought as a vassal

• someone who really likes the dark

• specially trained portrait artists

What is chivalry?

• the code that the knights followed and lived by

• the house or castle that the lords lived in

• a type of farming

• a long narrow inlet of the sea between high cliffs.

What was a lord's estate made up of a house, church, fields, mill, peasant housing, etc.?

• manor

• farm

• fief

• town