JEOPARDY Medieval Europe
Categories The Franks Feudalism The Church People England+France Vocabulary
Who was Clovis? He was the first of the Frankish, Merovingian kings, who accepted Christianity after winning an important battle.
Where was Tours? This is where the Franks stopped the Muslim expansion into Southern France and Western Europe.
What was the Carolingian Dynasty? This is the name of the dynasty established by Pepin III after giving the Pope, Lombard lands conquered in battle.
Who was Charlemagne? He was crowned King of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor on Christmas Day 800 A.D.
What was the Treaty of Verdun? This is the Treaty that divided Charlesmagne’s great empire into three weaker Kingdoms.
What is primogeniture? This is the name given to the act of awarding all of the land, and the title to the eldest son in a family.
What is a fief? This is feudal grant of land.
What was the Lord’s domain? This the lord’s third of the land that he kept for himself.
What was chivalry? This was the Medieval code of conduct.
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What was manorialism, where everything was made on the manor? This was the economic system that developed in Medieval Europe after the fall of Rome.
Who were the Magyars? These people were the nomads from central Asia, whose tactics and fighting style resembled the Huns, settling in Eastern Europe.
Who was William the Conqueror? He was the Norman leader who conquered England in 1066.
Who was Thomas Becket? He was the archbishop of Canterbury who was murdered by the King’s soldiers after refusing to allow Henry II to take control of Church law and revenues.
Who was King John I? He was the English king that was forced to sign the Magna Carta in 1215 at Runnymeade.
Who was Philip Augustus or Philip II? He was the shrewd French Capetian king who seized English lands while Richard II was off fighting the Crusades.
Who was Pope Innocent III? From , he was considered the most powerful Pope in history and led the papacy to its zenith in prestige and power.
What was simony? This was the practice of paying for a position in the church.
What was baptism, communion ( Holy Eucharist), confirmation, penance, ordination, matrimony, and extreme unction ( last rites)? These were the sacraments of the Roman Catholic Church.
Who was the Bishop? This was the church position that was head of the diocese and the manager or head of the Cathedral.
What was the Benedictine Rule? This was the oath a monk took upon joining a Monastery pledging to always obey the abbot, and granting that all his property was also the property of the other monks.
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What or who was the Archbishop of Canterbury? This position in the English church later becomes the highest position and the leader of the Anglican Church that forms around 1529 A.D.
What were shires? These were the governmental districts in early Anglo - Saxon England.
What was English common law? This was the type of English law based on a judge’s decision rather than a set of established rules or statutes.
What was the Ile-de- France? This was the small area around Paris that the early Capetian kings ruled.
What was the formation of the English Parliament ? This was the expansion of the English Great Council by Simon De Montfort, that allowed merchants, and representatives of the middle class to advise the King.
What was an interdict? This was the Papal act of excommunicating an entire country.
What was the Inquisition? This was the organization formed by the Dominicans to eliminate heresy and often heretics.
Who were the serfs? These were the peasants that were bound to the land.
What or who was a vassal? This was the person who held and worked the land in exchange for his services in battle.
What was the Domesday Book? This was the book or tabulation of the wealth of England compiled for tax purposes by William I of England from ?