Social Studies LEAP 2025 Review (Part 1)

The _______________ was the only major institution in Europe that

survived the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

• Catholic Church

• Monastery

• Roman Empire

• Byzantine Empire

________ were centers of learning, as schools were rare, and universities did not yet exist in Europe. They followed a set of rules that addressed how monks should live their daily lives. The rules helped make _________ centers of stability in medieval Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire.

• church

• monasteries

• bibles

• trading

Name the ruler!

He was crowned by the Pope. His greatest talent was organizing and managing people. He knew how to inspire armies to fight, and he also knew how to move them quickly from one place to another. This was an important skill for a leader during a time when there were no reliable maps. He did not want to gain power only for himself. He also tried to spread Christianity and encouraged learning. He never learned to read, but he recognized that books were important. He brought scholars from all over Europe to his kingdom and ordered them to find and make copies of books. He encouraged a new form of script writing that was clear and easy to read. This led to the production of beautifully decorated books called illuminated manuscripts.

• Christopher Columbus

• Mansa Musa

• Sundiata Kieta

• Charlemagne

A system of government in which land is exchanged for loyalty and services.

• feudalism

• nobility

• manorialism

• lord

A person with power and influence who controls land given to them by a king.

• peasant

• serf

• lord

• fief

A soldier on horseback who serves a king or other ruler.

• serf

• lord

• peasant

• knight

Powerful families that hold fiefs and titles.

• knights

• nobility

• serfs

• slaves

Part A: A person who receives land from a ruler and in return promises to fight for the ruler.

Part B: A plot of land exchanged for loyalty to a ruler.

• Part A: vassal

  Part B: fief

• Part A: lord

  Part B: fief

• Part A: serf

  Part B: land

• Part A: chancellor

  Part B: manor

Beginning from the top of the feudal pyramid to the bottom, choose the correct order of feudal society.

• 1.) Knights

  2.) Nobles

  3.) King

  4.) Peasants

• 1.) King

  2.) Nobles

  3.) Knights

  4.) Peasants

• 1.) Peasants

  2.) Knights

  3.) Nobles

  4.) King

• 1.) Serfs

  2.) Nobles

  3.) King

  4.) Peasants

Part A: A large country house and its surrounding land.

Part B: A person living on a feudal estate who was required to work for the lord of the manor.

• Part A: tepee

  Part B: Europeans

• Part A: empire

  Part B: lord

• Part A: manor

  Part B: serf

• Part A: castle

  Part B: serf