THE MIDDLE AGES REVIEW
Angles
Muslims
Knights
Feudal
chivalry
castles
Clovis
three
Vikings
William the Conqueror
fief
Tours
serfs
Magyars
Charlemagne
The Pope
Charles Martel
vassal
land
Feudal Contract Estates General
ordeal
renaissance
Saxons
manorial
Parliament
1. ________________ were heavily armored soldiers who fought on horses.
2. First built out of wood, then later stone, _________________ were built for defense.
3. Wealth was based on owning ______________________.
4. The ___________________ were invaders from central Asia.
5. England was invaded by the __________________ and _______________________.
6. The ____________ field system of crop rotation allowed the land time to rest.
7. The _____________________________ outlined the responsibilities of lords and vassals.
8. After a battle, __________________ became the first Germanic ruler to convert to Christianity.
9. The _________________ invaders conquered Spain and were also pirates in the Mediterranean.
10. A ____________________ is someone who owes military service to a lord.
11. At the Battle of _________________, the Muslim invasion into Europe was stopped.
12. The leader who led the Franks to victory in the battle of Tours was _________________________.
13. Not slaves, ________________ were peasants who were legally bound to the land.
14. The ______________________ system was the economic system of the Middle Ages.
15. The ______________________ system was the political system of the Middle Ages.
16. A rebirth of learning and culture is known as a ______________________________.
17. An ___________________ was used to determine a person’s guilt.
18. From Scandinavia, the __________________ were fierce warriors and sailors who had far-reaching attacks.
19. ___________________ stated that knights were to defend women and the Church.
20. ________________________ created a large European kingdom in the 700s and 800s.
21. In return for his military service, a vassal is granted a ___________________.
22. ____________________________________ is an assembly of representatives from all three social classes in France
that worked like a legislature
23. ___________________________________ is a body of representatives that make laws for a nation like England
24. ____________________________invaded England from Normandy and changed their culture and language.
25. _______________________is the head of the Roman Catholic Church
26. __________________________ the body of laws governing the religious practices of a Christian church.
THE MIDDLE AGES VOCABULARY REVIEW
Black Death
Routes
Saladin
Anti-Semitism
Joan of Arc
God
Bubonic
War of the Roses
100 Years’ War
long bow
Jerusalem
Crusades
First
Guilds
France
Magna Carta
England
Inquisition
money
vernacular
Journeyman
Apprentice
The Middle Ages
Common Law
master
1. The goal of each Crusade was to capture the city of ________________________.
2. The ______________________ was the worst natural disaster in European history.
3. The only successful Crusade was the ______________ Crusade.
4. The _______________ plague was the most common form of the Black Death.
5. _______________ restricted competition and set quality standards.
6. Joan of Arc brought the __________________________to a decisive turning point.
7. _____________________ is hostility towards Jews.
8. Infected rats, and therefore the plague, followed trade ______________.
9. A ten year old who works to learn a skill and receives only room and board would be a/n
______________________.
10. The Hundred Years’ War started when __________________ declared war.
11. Many people felt that _________ sent the plague as a punishment.
12. The _______________________ placed limits on the king’s power for the first time in England.
13. Trade encouraged people to use _______________ instead of paying with goods.
14. People fought in the ____________________ to try and regain the Holy Land.
15. _____________________________ lead an army that saved the French Crown but was later burned at the stake.
16. A ____________________ worked for other masters for pay.
17. In the ________________________, the houses of York and Lancaster fought over the throne of England.
18. Although it didn’t dominate in the beginning, ________________ won the Hundred Years’ War.
19. A person in Spain speaking Spanish is an example of _____________________.
20. If a guild accepts your masterpiece, you become a ____________________.
21. __________________ recaptured Jerusalem, sparking the Third Crusade.
22. English foot soldiers decimated French knights using the _________________ in the Hundred Years’ War
23. The _______________________ was a Roman Catholic Tribunal used to investigate, charge and prosecute for the
crime of heresy.
24. _________________________ began with the attack on Rome and other cities by barbarians like the
Magyars’s
25. _________________________ Case by case rulings of English judges that became unified laws