World History Middle Ages Test Review
apprentice
chivalry
coins
credit
Dante Alighieri
Domesday Book
fealty
fief
friars
Geoffrey Chaucer
Gothic style
Hanseatic League
heresy
Holy Land
Joan of Arc
manorial system
monasteries
Moors
Norsemen
Papal States
Parliament
piety
pontificate
Richard the LionHearted
Saladin
serf
tapestry
the Inquisitions
vassal
vernacular
A person learning the basic skills of a craft
A strict code of honor that required knights to be generous and courteous
Increasingly used to pay wages and taxes in the Middle Ages
Its use increased at trade fairs and led to the creation of Europe’s first banks
Wrote The Divine Comedy
Survey taken of English residents and their possessions
Loyalty
The land given to a knight for his service to a lord
Members of new religious orders who lived and preached in towns
Wrote The Canterbury Tales
Design of medieval churches that made them taller and brighter than earlier
churches
A group of cities in Germany that worked together to promote and protect trade
Beliefs that opposed official Church teachings
Goal of the Crusades was to take control of this from the Muslims
French heroine of the Hundred Years’ War, burned at stake
The economic system of medieval western Europe
Homes for monks frequently targeted in Viking raids
Muslims
Vikings
Region in central Italy ruled by the pope
English law-making body made up of members of the nobility and clergy
A measure of one’s devotion to religion
Term in office of a pope
Failed to take control of Jerusalem during the Third Crusade
Muslim leader of the Holy Land during the Third Crusade
A peasant who was legally tied to the manor on which he worked
Large woven wall hanging
Legal procedures supervised by special judges to try suspected heretics
A person who owed service to his lord
Everyday languages
Castles were built for what particular purpose?
Defense
How did Charlemagne ensure that his counts remained loyal and did their jobs well?
By setting up a system of rewards and punishments administered by inspectors
What advance in engineering made this type of architecture possible?
The flying buttress
What caused the collapse of the medieval manor system?
The Black Death
What is another name for the plague that devastated Europe in the mid-1300s?
The Black Death
What was the art of illumination?
decorating written manuscripts with pictures or designs
What was the goal of the First Crusade?
To take Jerusalem and the Holy Land away from the Muslims.
What were two main effects of the Crusades?
European kings gained more political power and relations between religious groups became more
strained.
Why did Europe become a feudal society?
Europeans needed to defend themselves against constant raids and invasions.
Why did merchants asked the king for special charters?
Merchants did not want to pay fees to feudal lords.
Why did the pope have such great influence in the Middle Ages?
Nearly everyone in Europe was Christian.
Why did Vikings begin raiding northern Europe?
Viking farmers could not grow enough food.