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DATE: ___________________
CLASS: ___________________
MIDDLE AGES STUDY GUIDE
KEY TERMS/PEOPLE/EVENTS: You need to be able to define and/or explain each of the following terms
from this unit. All of the terms are fair game.
#1: EARLY MIDDLE AGES (500-1200):
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Middle Ages (Dark Ages)
Franks
Clovis
Charlemagne
coronation
Charles Martel
Mayor of the Palace
Holy Roman Empire
Carolingian Dynasty
Pepin the Short (title)
Vikings
#2: FEUDALISM:
 Feudalism
 Manorialism/manor
Lords
Knights
Peasants / Serfs
 Fiefs
Chivalry
 tithe
#3: CHRISTIANITY AND MEDIEVAL CIVILIZATION (1570 BCE-200 CE):
 Pope Gregory VII
 trial by ordeal
 Papal States
 excommunication
 Pope Gelasius I
 interdiction
 clergy
 the Cistercians
 sacrament
 St. Benedict/Benedictine Order
 canon law
 monks
 lay investiture
 monasteries
 simony
 nuns
 Papal Curia
 convents
 the Concordat of Wurms
 Franciscan Order
 papal supremacy
 Dominican Order
 heretic
#4: BLACK DEATH:
 Black Death
 Bubonic Plague
 Yersinia Pestis
 Boccaccio The Decameron
 flagellants
 anti-semitism
#5: THE CRUSADES:
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Pope Urban II
Saladin
Richard the Lionhearted
Holy Lands (Jerusalem)
Crusades
Seljuk Turks
Islam/Muslims
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#6: ENGLAND AND FRANCE DEVELOP:
 William the Conqueror
 Henry II
 common law
 Magna Carta
 parliament
 Hugh Capet
 Capetian Dynasty
 Philip II
 Estates-General
#7: HUNDRED YEARS’ WAR:
 Avignon
 Great Schism
 John Wycliffe
 Jan Hus
 Hundred Years’ War
 Joan of Arc
NOTES :
The following is a list of notes we completed in class or notes that were printed off for you. Please review your
NOTES!
-The Fall of Rome and the Beginning of the Middle Ages
-Black Death Notes
-Middle Ages Church Notes
-Hundred Years’ War Notes
SHORT CONSTRUCTED RESPONSE QUESTIONS:
1. What was the Plague, and how did the Plague change Europe during the Dark Ages? Explain in a
paragraph, giving at least two examples. An Advanced response includes more than two well-explained
examples.
2. Explain the Crusades and the changes that occurred as a result (the lasting impact of the Crusades on both
the cultural, economic and political landscape of the Middle Ages). Then, comment on the following: were the
Crusades caused primarily by religious devotion or by the desire for political and economic gain? Explain in a
paragraph, giving at least two examples. An Advanced response includes more than two well-explained
examples.
3. What was the cause(s) of the Middle Ages, and what changes occurred during the Middle Ages? Explain in
a paragraph, giving at least two examples. An Advanced response includes more than two well-explained
examples.
4. Explain the development and impact of the Church on medieval society. Explain in a paragraph, giving at
least two examples. An Advanced response includes more than two well-explained examples.
5. Explain the development of feudalism and its impact on medieval society.
**USE ALL OTHER RESOURCES FROM THIS UNIT TO HELP YOU PREPARE FOR YOUR EXAM.**
FORMAT OF EXAM (same as always):
1) Matching (25)
2) Multiple Choice (50)
3) Short Constructed Response (21)
Total: 100 pts.