MIDDLE AGES STUDY GUIDE

Ch. 8-9

Please write two meaningful sentences that are related to each of the following terms. One can be a definition and the other an example or two of the terms relevance from the text. This discipline insures that you have improved comprehension and command of the material. (Remember to double space between terms for easier viewing).

 

*peasant

*usury

*capital

*tithe

*fief

*chivalry

*charter

*troubador

*manor economy

*how monks and nuns lived

*Why was church reform desired?

*new agricultural technologies

*defense of castles (moats, etc)

*Battle of Tours

*vassals

*peasants

*knights

*lords

*why did the church have great power over the people?

*Cluniac reforms

*three field system

*merchant guilds

*clergy

*nobles

*Charlemagne

*Leif Erikson

*serf

*excommunication

*steel plow

*feudal system

*Black Death- which regions most devastated?% population died? result?

*Magna Carta

*Concordat of Worms

*Chief goal of/ and result of the Crusades

*Reconquista

*early jury system

*conflict between emperors and popes

 

Short Answer

A. 5 reasons late Middle Ages was a time of decline.

B. 3 long term effects of the crusades

 

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