Middle Ages Test Review Name

1.  What do we call a piece of land given to a vassal by a lord? ______

2.  What is the name of the religious community where the monks lived?

3.  Who was the leader of the Franks that united all the Franks under his leadership, and was baptized along with 3000 of his soldiers?

4.  What is the name of the monk that wrote a set of rules for monastic life?

5.  What is the official exchange of land for loyalty and service called between lord and vassal?

6.  What is the name of the person that rules the kingdom for the king?

7.  Who was the 1st Mayor of the Palace that defeated the Muslims at the Battle of Tours?

8.  Who was the 1st Mayor of the Palace to become king?

9.  This term refers to things that are worldly or outside of the churches authority.

10.  What do we call a peasant that is bound to the manor?

11.  What is the name of the Viking leader that reached the Americas 500 years before Columbus?

12.  What do we call the event in which knights practiced their skills?

13.  What is the code of ethics and rules called a Knight lived by?

14.  What was the ceremony called where a king or noble appointed a church official?

15.  What is another name for the lord’s estate?

16.  Who was the Viking explorer that established a settlement on Iceland?

17.  Which modern country was not part of Scandinavia?

18. List the groups in the feudal pyramid.

19. Who ruled as a secular leader in addition to his duties as Pope?

20. Which dynasty did Clovis strengthen?

21. Which dynasty was started by Pepin?

22. Who started schools, libraries, expanded Frankish kingdom, became Holy Roman Emperor in the year 800?

23. What was the name of the Viking King that received Normandy as a fief from the King of France?

24. What was the name of treaty that divided up Charlemagne’s kingdom?

25. What were the causes of the Viking decline?

26. The law of the church is known as ______Law.

27. The compromise between church and nobility dealing with lay investiture was called the

______.

Visual recognition

28. The below siege weapon would sling boulders, dead and diseased animals, pots of burning lime, severed heads, captured soldiers and other objects at the castle. What was it called?

29.  What do we call the following person that served his heavenly Lord, earthly lord and chosen lady?

30. What do we call this seafaring explorer and warrior?

In the picture of the castle, put the appropriate castle defense with the letter that points to it.

31.  Where can you find a moat?

32.  What are arrow slits?

33.  What is a drawbridge?

34.  What are the battlements?

35. What do we call the above siege weapon?

36. These pictures represent which type of siege weapon?

pic from “Kingdom of Heaven” movie.

______

37. This picture represents a ______used between 800-1000.

38. This is 1/10 of your income that is paid to the church.

39. What is the name of the document that limited the king’s rights and signed by King John?

40. What was the primary cause of the Bubonic Plague or “Black Death”?

41. During the Middle Ages thousands were put on trial by the church, tortured and burned at the stake. The court or group responsible for this was called the ______.

42. These were the associations of craftsmen and merchants in Medieval Europe.

43. Pope Leo launched military expeditions of knights to regain the Holy Land from Muslim control. What were these called?

44. Who was the Muslim leader that captured Jerusalem?

45. What was the split in the church over who would be Pope?

46. This War represents the end of the Middle Ages.

47. Who was the female leader of the French during the 100 years War vs the English?