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WorksheetsFeudalism-Crusades-Black Death
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 7mins
Which of the following is the best prediction of what might have happened if the Vikings had not invaded Europe
Knights would have been unable to find work to do
Nobles would not have needed knights to protect them
Serfs would not have been needed to farm the lands of nobles
Peasants would have been hired to protect the lands of the nobles
What is the correct order of the Feudalism system in Europe
Knights, King, Serfs, Lords/Nobles
King, Knights, Lords/Nobles, Serfs
Iron Man, Thor, Black Panther, Hulk
King, Lords/Nobles, Knights, Serfs
What did Kings do in the feudal system?
provide protection in exchange for farming and military service.
provided leadership and delegated lands to Lords/Nobles.
legally bound to the land who provided labor services, pay rent, and were subjects of the Lords/Nobles
they would receive pieces of land in the form of fiefs.
What did Lords/Nobles do in the feudal system?
delegated lands to Lords/Nobles.
provided protection for the Lords/Nobles in exchange they would receive pieces of land in the form of fiefs.
would get shelter, farmland, and protection from knights in return.
would provide protection in exchange for farming and military service.
What did the Knights do in the feudal system?
provided leadership
provide protection in exchange for farming and military service.
legally bound to the land
provided protection for the Lords/Nobles in exchange they would receive pieces of land in the form of fiefs.
What did serfs do in the feudal system?
were peasants legally bound to the land who provided labor services, pay rent, and were subjects of the Lords/Nobles. Serfs would get shelter, farmland, and protection from knights in return.
provided protection for the Lords/Nobles in exchange they would receive pieces of land in the form of fiefs.
provide protection in exchange for farming and military service.
provided leadership
What impact on Europe did these Crusades have?
people and cultures became less greedy for money and power
ideas spread about advancements
increased use of money
kings in Europe became more powerful
opened trade routes to the East
What are ways to look at the Crusades in terms of success or failure?
enables merchants to earn a significant profit through trading and transporting armies.
enabled the spread of pagan religions in the absence of thousands of Crusaders from Europe
successful socially in that it got rid of argumentative knights who threatened the peace, Politically, the failure of later Crusades also lessened the power of the pope.
economic, social, and political goals as well as religious motives s
was also an opportunity to reunite Christians spiritually.
What activity helped spread the plague ?
praying
farming
trapping
blacksmithing
trading
How did life change for peasants and serfs who survived the plague?
They began to doubt the church
Knights and Nobles did not get the plague by living in castles
They moved from the countryside into the cities
They had to work much longer days in order to earn enough to survive
They began to demand wages for their labor
How did the Black Death contribute to the fall of feudalism in Europe?
massive numbers of deaths that caused a labor shortage that ended serfdom.
Labor shortages caused by the death toll led to increased wages
the mass deaths allowed the Mongols to invade from the east, and the Huns from the west
the mass deaths caused Queen Isabella to send Columbus in search of new lands to claim for the English Empire and resettlement
Feudal lands were often converted to grazing because grazing required less labor than farming,
With less farming, serfs and peasants moved into towns and cities which began to grow
Why were some of the countries were affected by the plague and others weren’t?
carrying tea and spices which kept the disease alive
lack of mountainous terrain, typhoons, sea squalls, tides which carried merchant ships to the wrong ports
lack of ports, strict immigration/visitor laws, ships carrying disease stayed infected from visiting many ports
sailors avoided ports that refused to play AC/DC, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, and Deep Purple
