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Feudalism

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a fief?

a)

A warrior who fights on a horseback

b)

Land granted to a vassal for military service

c)

A lower noble

d)

Land the king grants to peasants

2.

What is a serf?

a)

A noble who cannot leave the farm they were born on

b)

A peasant who cannot own property and must work a nobles land

c)

A knight who serves a lord for life

d)

A peasant who pays the noble to farm the noble's land

3.

What is a knight?

a)

A higher noble who owns a large amount of land

b)

A lower noble who trains for war in tournaments and jousting

c)

A lower noble who refuses to fight

d)

A peasant who fights in the noble's army

4.

Under which system did landowning nobles govern and protect the people in return for services?

a)

Feudalism

b)

Mercantileism

c)

Protectionism

d)

Vassalism

5.

Which of these were important inventions in farming in the Middle Ages? CHECK ALL THAT APPLY

a)

Crop rotation

b)

Wheeled plow and horse collar

c)

Bladed plow

d)

Bug resistant crops

6.

Medieval knights followed rules called the code of

a)

the king

b)

the knight

c)

chivalry

d)

servitude

7.

Charles Martel gave land to nobles because he needed to raise an army to fight against who?

a)

Muslims

b)

Vikings

c)

Nomads

d)

Byzantines

8.

True or False: Medieval Europe was mostly ruled by a single King/Emperor

a)

True

b)

False

9.

Medieval castle's moats were all of the following EXCEPT

a)

A defense so attackers could not easily get next to the walls

b)

A place to take baths in during times of peace

c)

A way to help the archers easily hit the enemy from the walls

d)

A man-made ditch filled with water

10.

Which of the following BEST describes the life of a peasant?

a)

Filled with work year round, little money, and no chance for changing their social status

b)

Difficult but through hard work they could become knights or even higher nobles

c)

A few months of difficult work but most of the year was spent with their families

d)

Very harsh as they were bought and sold by different nobles

11.

What is a concordat?

a)

A code that knights live by

b)

An agreement between the pope and a ruler

c)

Land granted to a vassal

d)

A person who goes out to teach a religion

12.

What is a fjord?

a)

An agreement between the pope and a ruler

b)

A narrow inlet of the sea

c)

A sea next to the Viking home

d)

A leader of the Vikings

13.

True or False: Most of the land in Europe lies within 300 miles of the sea.

a)

True

b)

False

14.

What helped create a new middle class in medieval Europe?

a)

The rise of trade

b)

The rise of feudalism

c)

The new king Charlmagne

d)

The code of chivalry

15.

What is a guild?

a)

Business groups for each craft

b)

A group of knights that fought for the king

c)

A peasant who cannot leave the farm they were born on

d)

A group of traders controlled by the king