The Middle Ages Exam

What were the Crusades?

The basis for the political and economic system that governed life during the Middle Ages and beyond.

An autocrat

A person under the protection of a feudal lord to whom he has vowed homage

What was the reason for the First Crusade?

The latin word for Middle Ages

The most severe punishment one in the Church could face

The result of the First Crusade

The capital of the Byzantine Empire

The thousand-year span between the fall of the Roman empire and the Renaissance beginnings of modern history

The Frankish king who gained support of the pope, after he converted to the religion of his conquered subjects in Gaul.

After the Great Schism, what was the division in Europe among Christendom?

A man of high rank in feudal society; A landowner

Justinian ruled as an autocrat

A centuries-long series of battles by Christian states to expel the Muslims (Moors)

The global epidemic that killed 75-200 million people

The division of the Roman Catholic Church in the West, and the Orthodox Christian Church in the East

The heir to the Roman Empire

The king of the Franks, who later became emperor of the Romans

The Muslim leader who defeated the crusaders in the Third Crusade.

The reason the Black Death spread so rapidly

The English King during the Third Crusade

The medieval knightly system of gentleman behavior, with its religious, moral, and social code

A massive collection of laws created by the Romans, that was updated and used by the Byzantine Empire