Aim: How can
we review content on European and Japanese feudalism?
Bell Ringer:
Stamp “European & Japanese Feudalism” Venn Diagram
Objectives:
1.Students will determine
factors that led to the growth of a modern economy (agricultural improvements,
trade, guilds, rise of a merchant class, rise of towns)
2.Students will analyze the
effects of trade on the diffusion of culture.
Agenda:
1.Bell Ringer (5 min)
2.European/Japanese
Medieval Quiz-Quiz-Trade
3.Review for "European
& Japanese" Exam
Home
Learning: Study Guide for the Test is below
QUIZ-QUIZ-TRADE SLIPS:
1. Q. He was king of the Franks in 486 and
conquered the former Roman province of Gaul and renamed it France. He preserved
much of Roman legacy. He converted to Christianity and he earned the support of his subjects in Gaul.
A. Clovis
2. Q. Who did Clovis ally himself with, which
was to his advantage?
A. The Pope
3. Q. How did Western Europe decline politically
during the Middle Ages?
A. Western Europe became divided. It wasn’t
unified anymore.
4. Q. How did Western Europe decline economically during the Middle
Ages?
A. Western Europe was cut off from advanced
civilizations in the Middle East, China, and India.
5. Q. Who was the king who united Western Europe in 768 C.E.? tips: He
helped the Pope and in return the Pope proclaimed him Emperor of the Romans.
A. Charlemagne
6. Q. How did Charlemagne help unify Europe?
A. He encouraged Education, and he helped spread
Christianity
7. Q. What people invaded Western Europe after Charlemagne’s death?
A. Vikings, Magyars and Muslims
8. Q. What was the loosely organized system of rule in which kings
assigned land to powerful local lords, who then divided their
landholdings among lesser lords?
A. Feudalism
9. Q. What was the name of these lesser lords that pledged service and
loyalty to the greater lord?
A. vassal
10. Q. What was the name of these territories that the lords controlled?
These plots of lands included peasants that worked the land, as well as towns
or buildings on the land.
A. fief
11. Q. Many nobles began training in the military as an occupation.
These soldiers were mounted warriors.
A. Knights
12. Q. In addition to actual warfare, knights engaged in mock battles
called…
A. tournaments
13. Q. In later Middle Ages, knights adopted a code of conduct called
A. Chivalry
14. Q. The heart of the feudal economy was the lord’s estate or home.
What was the lord or vassal’s home called?
A. Manor
15. Q. What were the peasants on a manor called?
A. serfs
16. Q. During Feudal times, this was the social center as well as a
place of worship because it was often the largest public building in a village.
A. Church
17. Q. Medieval popes claimed authority over all secular rulers,
including kings and emperors. The pope headed an army of churchmen who
supervised church activities. This is called:
A. papal supremacy
18. Q. Anyone who disobeyed Church law faced a range of penalties, the
worst one being _________. These people could not receive the sacraments or a
Christian burial, which condemned them to hell for eternity.
A. Excommunication
19. Q. What helped Europe rise economically again?
A. An agricultural revolution
20. Q. As trade revived, the use of money increased. In time, the need
for __________, or money for investment, stimulated the growth of banking
houses.
A. capital
21. Q Europeans developed new ways of doing business. Groups of
merchants joined together in _________.
A. partnerships
22. Q. By 1300, most peasants in Western Europe were hired farm laborers
or _____________, who paid rent for their land.
a. tenant farmers
23. Q. By 1000 C.E., merchants, traders, and artisans formed a new
social class. In status, this class ranked between nobles and peasants, called…
A. the middle class
24. Q. Merchants and artisans formed associations or clubs called
__________ that dominated town life, by passing laws to levying taxes to
protect merchants. What are these associations called?
A. guilds
25. Q. At the age of seven or eight, a child might become an
______________, or a trainee, to a guild master.
A. apprentice
26. Q. Geographically, Japan has always been protected from other
civilizations by seas and oceans. Japan is located on an ________
A. archipelago
27. Q. Equivalent to European Knights, Japanese warriors were called
A. samurai
28. Q. This Japanese code of honor that emphasized honor, bravery, and
absolute loyalty was similar to European Chivalry.
A. bushido
29. Q. In the Japanese social class structure, this individual held the
highest rank but had no political power:
A. emperor
30. Q. In the Japanese social class structure, this individual was the
actual ruler
A. shogun
31. Q. In the Japanese social class structure, these were the large landowners
A. Daimyo
32. Q. At the very bottom of the social class structure in Japan were:
A. merchants, peasants, artisans
TEST TIPS:
1. Know all 32 questions above.
2. Know the European social class structure during Feudal times.
3. Have your Venn Diagram ready to be submitted with your test.
