Review Sheet for Exam on Feudal Europe
1. results of collapse of Roman Empire in western Europe.
decentralized power
Charlemagne
Effects of conquests
Crowned by pope
Government
Education
invasions after Charlemagne
2. social classes
social pyramid
king’s power
vassals
lords and serfs
fiefs
suzerain
primogeniture
vigorous local government
3. castle features
knights
chivalry
4. manorialism
manor
self-sufficiency
2 essential items not produced on manor
serfs’ obligations
3 field system
fallow
5. sacraments
excommunication
inquisition and heresy
tithe
charity
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usury
church as landowner
education
books and manuscripts/Greco-Roman learning
canon law
investiture controversy/Canossa
Concordat of Worms
Beckett and conn. to Canterbury Tales
BIG Questions:
How did the collapse of the Roman Empire affect western Europe?
How was feudalism a response to post-Roman conditions in western Europe?
How did manorialism address the economic needs of the time?
What were the effects of a decentralized power structure in western Europe?
Why might Charlemagne’s crowning as Roman Emperor be seen by some as
problematic?
How did the Church try to preserve its independence from civil rulers, both lords and
kings?
In what way was learning transmitted through the feudal age?
In this rural economy, why was agricultural output so low.