1. Medieval Europe Review
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Period _______
1. The world’s second smallest continent: Europe
10. Define navigable: water that is deep enough for boat travel
2. The world’s largest landmass: Eurasia
11. The years that the Middle Ages existed: AD
3. Three mountains we studied located in Europe:
1. Alps
2. Ural
3. Caucasus
12. Basis of the European economy during the Middle Ages:
wealth and power
13. Large estates owned by nobles: manors
14. Workers bound to work on large estates: serfs
4. Define fjord: a narrow inlet
15. These people took an oath of loyalty to the lord: knights
16. A separate manor that is granted to a vassal from the lord:
fief
5. How you can describe the climate in Europe:
Mild/temperate
17. The wife of the lord: lady
6. What covered Europe over 2,000 years ago? forests
18. The system of organizing and governing society based on land and service created during the Middle Ages:
feudalism
7. The process of clearing a forest: deforestation
8. Reason for European farmers clearing the forests:
To create more farmable land
19. How was a serf different from a slave?
serfs could not be bought or sold
9. Most important industry to the European economy:
fishing
20. Only the son of a _noble__could become a knight.

2. 21. Reason for towns developing in the Middle Ages:
to provide a marketplace for crop surpluses
32. Someone who devotes their life to religion and lived in a convent: Nuns
22. This was used in the towns to trade with:
coined money
33. Someone who devotes their life to religion and lived in a monastery: Monks
23. Title given to the organized groups of traders and craft-workers: guilds
34. Famous monk who wrote the plan for the first monastery:
Benedict
24. Frank ruler who became the emperor of Europe in A.D. 800: Charles the Great/Charlemagne
35. How were monasteries like manors?
they were self-sufficient
25. Which group of Northern people attacked Europe at the end of Charlemagne’s reign? Vikings/Norsemen
36. A grand church building: cathedral
37. Religious journey to the holy land: pilgrimage
26. Land around the Seine river that was named after the Northern invaders mentioned in #25: Normandy
38. A person who is considered to be especially holy: saint
39. One of the most honored saints of the Middle Ages:
Francis of Assisi
27. The Norsemen were originally from: Scandinavia
28. 1st Norman King of England: William the Conqueror
40. Man who urged the Christians to go on the 1st Crusade:
Pope Urban II
29. The charter that limited the power of the king and stated that lords had certain rights: Magna Carta
41. Reason for the Christians going on the first Crusade:
to capture Jerusalem (Holy Land) from the Muslim Turks
30. Central to Europeans lives during the Middle Ages:
Religion
42. Cause of the end of the Middle Ages: Black Death/Plague
31. Purpose of the guilds:
to set rules about quality and prices
43. Fraction of the population of Siena, Italy wiped out from the Black Death: 2/3