The Middle Ages are the period between a____________ history and m__________ history. The Middle Ages lasted about one t_______________ years from the fall of R______ in ad476 to about ad1450. You can round off the dates to say the Middle Ages lasted from about ad______ to about ad________.
 

     G__________ tribes that included the H______, the G________ and the V________________ overran Rome. The tribes sacked the city for p____________, or things taken by f________.
 

     The only empire of the Middle Ages in Western Europe was united by C____________________. Charlemagne was crowned H______ R________ E____________ in ad________. He was concerned with fighting the V____________, who were fierce w______________ from S____________________. Scandinavia is comprised of the modern nations of N__________, Sweden and D____________. The Vikings were also great sailors who traveled far from their homelands. In fact, the V____________ reached A____________ about five h____________ years before C______________.
 

Name:	Date:
Middle Ages Homework 1	Mr. Dowling’s class

1. What event marks the end of ancient history? 2. What three modern nations did most of the Vikings come from? By what collective name do we know those nations? 3. Why were the Crusades fought? 4. Approximately what percentage of Europeans died in the Great Plague? 5. Why did so many people die in the Great Plague? 6. Why do you think there was more disease in the Middle Ages than in earlier times? 7. Why are we safer from disease today than we were in the past? A think question. I will accept any reasonable answer.
 

Name:	Date:
Middle Ages Homework 2	Mr. Dowling’s class

     Almost h______ of the people of Europe died in the "G________ P__________." A plague is a widespread s______________. Most of the people of Western E__________ practiced poor h____________. They live close together in very crowded cities with very poor s______________ conditions. The Europeans often ate s________ or d______________ meat in an ear before the invention of r________________________. The plague was carried by f________ that fed on the b________ of infected r______. There wasn’t much hope for the infected Europeans because modern m______________ to fight the plagued has yet to be i______________.

     The C________________ C__________ was the most powerful force in Western Europe during the M__________ Ages. The Church was ruled by the P______, who lived in Rome. The popes ruled over the c__________ of the Christian Church. Clergy are r________________ w______________ who include priests, ministers, rabbis, nuns, bishops and monks.

     The Christian Church split in two groups during the Middle Ages. This is called the "G____ S__________." Schism is a word that describes "a division into two opposing groups." More than a century before the fall of Rome, Constantine moved the capital of the R________ Empire to Constantinople, a city in modern T__________. There were great c______________ differences between the people of E____________ Europe and the Western Europeans. The one event that may have caused the schism occurred on New Year’s Day, ad800. Pope L____ III crowned C____________________ as the H______ R________ E____________. The ruler of Constantinople was angry because he considered himself, not C____________________ to be the legitimate R________ emperor.
 
 
 

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Middle Ages Homework 2	Mr. Dowling’s class

     Throughout Europe, V__________, G__________ and M__________ tribes overran homes and farms. The peasants turned to the l________, another term for landowners, for P p__________________. Many peasants remained f______ but most became s________. The life of a serf was not much better than the life of a s________. A serf was b________ to the l______ and could not leave without b__________ his f____________. The only difference between a serf and a s________ was that a serf could not be s______ to another m__________.
 

     A serf would often have to work for the lord several days a week as r______. They would have only a get a few days to tend to their own plots of land to f______ their f______________. Some peasants worked as sh______________________ who would be r______________ to turn over most of what they grew in order to l______ on the land.

Try your best. I will accept any reasonable answer.
 

Name:	Date:
Middle Ages Homework 3	Mr. Dowling’s class

     Primogeniture is the system of I____________________ where all p______________ is handed down to the f________ born s____ of a n________. The y____________ sons of a noble would have to find other c____________.
 

     Some younger sons of noble entered the c__________ as priests and monks. Others opted for knighthood. A k__________ began his training as a young boy an advanced to become a s__________ when he was about f_____________ years old. When the o______________ considered the young squire w_________, he was entitled to be called "S____."
 

     Some younger children of n__________ acquired t__________. A noble could not send his child to trade school because none existed in the M__________ Ages. A boy would often leave his home to live with the family of a m__________ tradesman. For about s________ years, the boy would serve as an a__________________. He would not earn money during this time. In fact, his father often has to pay the master to help support him.
 

    After about seven years, the apprentice became a j__________________. A journeyman was a typical tradesman. He could now be p______ for his work and moved from the master’s house to live on his own. Some tradesmen were e____________. They created a m____________________ and became m____________ themselves.

Most girls could only hope that their father would provide a substantial d__________, or a present to a future husband of m________, goods, or sometimes l______. Fathers hoped that a large dowry would make their daughters P a__________________ to r______ l__________________.

1. What does "medieval" mean? 2. Why were the Middle Ages often called "the Dark Ages?" 3. What did the people of the Middle Ages hope for? 4. Explain why the "Dark Ages" were not very dark in other parts of the world. 5. Describe at least two ways that Europe awoke form its long sleep around AD1450. 6. What does Renaissance mean? A think question. I will accept any reasonable answer.
 

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Middle Ages Homework 5	Mr. Dowling’s class

1. Define feudalism. 2. Define manor. Describe at least two sections of a large manor. 3. In what modern nation will you find the descendants of the Magyar tribes? (Hint: did you look at the footnote?) 4. Who were the Lords in the Middle Ages?
  5. Explain why is would be better to be a serf than a slave. 6. Define sharecropper. A think question. I will accept any reasonable answer.
 

Name:	Date:
Middle Ages Homework 5	Mr. Dowling’s class

1. Define primogeniture. 2. What would have happened to the manors if they were equally divided between all of the children of a noble? 3. Who would receive a dowry? What would they do to earn it? 4. Why would a father want to provide a large dowry for his daughter? 5. Courtship is the system of dating and marriage. Is our customs of courtship better than the customs of the Middle Ages? Defend your answer A think question. I will accept any reasonable answer.