§upa - Jeopardy Terms - 16 - Europe: Feudalism, Church, & the Crusades Flashcards

A list of Jeopardy terms relating to Feudalism, the Church, and the Crusades of Europe

12836156	Manor	Medieval farming estate, including a village	0
12836157	Castle	Noble's home and fortress made of stone	1
12836158	Moat	Body of water that protected some castles	2
12836159	Drawbridge	Heavy door of a castle that could be raised or lowered	3
12836160	Code of Chivalry	Code of conduct developed for medieval knights	4
12836161	Chess	Popular board game played by nobles and ladies	5
12836162	Dungeon	Below-ground area where prisoners were kept in a castle	6
12836163	Central Government	Political condition that favored the development of feudalism	7
12836164	Military Aid, Service	Major obligation of a vassal to a lord	8
12836165	Ransom	Payment owed by a vassal if the lord was captured in battle	9
12836166	Tournaments	Mock battles, the great sport of feudal knights	10
12836167	Joust	A fight between two armored knights on horseback	11
12836168	Straw	Floor covering for a medieval manor house or castle	12
12836169	Great Hall	Castle room where everyone lived and ate	13
12836170	Fief	Grant of land	14
12836171	Lord's Court	Body of vassals that decided legal cases	15
12836172	Manor House	Wooden building built to provide protection to everyone on the lord's manor	16
12836173	Palisade	High wooden fence that surrounded a noble's house	17
12836174	Keep	Tall, strong tower of a castle	18
12836175	Dowry	Payment given by a bride's family to the husband-to-be	19
12836176	Fallow	Condition of a field left not planted every third year	20
12836177	Lord	Person who granted land in exchange for military services	21
12836178	Nobles	Class of people who were lords and vassals	22
12836179	Peasants	People who farmed the land and provided services for nobles	23
12836180	Serfs	Peasants who were bound to the land	24
12836181	Knight	Noble warrior on horseback	25
12836182	Kings	Weak rulers who granted land from royal estates to powerful lords	26
12836183	Clergy	Class of medieval religious leaders	27
12836184	Vassal	Lesser lord who held land in return for a pledge of services and loyalty	28
12836185	Oldest Son	Legal possession and use of land passed to this person when a lord or vassal died.	29
12836186	Freemen	Peasants who rented land from the lord	30
12836187	Page	First stage of learning to be a knight, beginning at the age of seven	31
12836188	Squire	A knight's assistant	32
12836189	Charlemagne	The last strong king in Europe before feudalism developed	33
12836190	Troubadours	Poet-musicians at feudal castles who sang about romantic love	34
12836191	Minstrels	Wandering musical entertainers	35
12836192	Artisans	Group of non-farming freemen necessary to village economy	36
12836193	Bailiff	Manor official who made sure the peasants worked hard in the fields	37
12836194	Chancellor	Head of a medieval university	38
12836195	Poor, Sick	Manor people that the lord's lady was obligated to care for	39
12836196	Lord	Person who kept one third of the manor's land for himself	40
12836197	Church	Organization that provided the only stable central authority in medieval Europe	41
12836198	Parish Priest	Local Church official	42
12836199	Latin	Official language of the Church	43
12836200	Pope	Spiritual head of the Church in western Europe	44
12836201	Nunneries (Convents)	Religious communities of nuns	45
12836202	Monasteries	Religious communities of monks	46
12836203	Reading, Writing	Skills possessed by Church officials and very few other members of medieval society	47
12836204	Cathedral	Large church headed by a bishop	48
12836205	Burning at the Stake	Ultimate punishment for heresy	49
12836206	Excommunication	Banishment from the Church	50
12836207	Abbot	Head of a monastery	51
12836208	Franciscans, Dominicans	Religious order dedicated to reform, whose members preached among the people	52
12836209	Social Welfare	Responsibility taken over by the Church that benefited the less fortunate	53
12836210	Canon Law	The laws of the Church	54
12836211	(Spanish) Inquisition	The search for heresy by the Spanish Church	55
12836212	Heresy	False doctrines or denial of the truth of dogma	56
12836213	Tithe	Contributions of 10 percent of one's income to the Church	57
12836214	Gregory the Great (I)	First pope to become a powerful earthly ruler	58
12836215	Benedictine Rule	Set of standards to regulate lives of monks, developed around 530	59
12836216	Gregory VII	Pope who attempted to rid the Church of control by kings and feudal lords	60
12836217	Concordat of Worms	Agreement of 1122 giving both the pope and the king a part in selecting bishops	61
12836218	Simony	The buying and selling of Church positions	62
12836219	Palestine	Land conquered by the Arabs that the crusaders sought to recapture	63
12836220	Islam	Religion of the Arabs	64
12836221	Seljuk Turks	Muslim people who took over the Holy Land from the Arabs	65
12836222	Byzantine Empire	Empire that appealed to the pope for protection from the Turks	66
12836223	Jerusalem	Holy city recaptured by the crusaders in 1099	67
12836224	Children's Crusade	Tragic crusade of 1212	68
12836225	(Pope) Urban II	Pope who called on the feudal lords to wage a holy war (a crusade) to regain the Holy Land	69
12836226	"God Wills It"	War cry of the crusaders	70
12836227	Red Cross	Emblem of the crusaders, sewn onto their tunics	71
12836228	Debts, Taxes, Sins, Criminal Punishment	The things a crusader would be forgiven for or declared free from	72
12836229	First Crusade	Crusade led by nobles that was successful	73
12836230	Massacred the Inhabitants	What the crusaders did when they recaptured the holy city	74
12836231	Richard the Lionheart of England, Frederick Barbarossa of Germany, Philip Augustus of France	The three kings who conducted the Third Crusade	75
12836232	Saladin	Muslim leader who recaptured Jerusalem in 1187	76
12836233	Increased Power of Kings	Main political effect of the crusades	77
12836234	Clermont	Site of Church council where the pope pleaded for a crusade	78
12836235	Second Crusade	Crusade led by Louis VII of France and the Holy Emperor Conrad III; begun in 1147	79
12836236	Crusade of the Three Kings	Term for the Third Crusade, 1189-1192	80
12836237	(Pope) Innocent III	Pope who called for a Fourth Crusade in 1198	81
12836238	Constantinople	City looted by crusaders in 1204	82