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William the Conqueror’s Normand Conquest of England in 1066 AD was the last large-scale invasion of Britain.

_______ was a ceremony or oath performed by a vassal to his lord to promise service for an exchange of land, protection, or titles.

The _______ created the foundation for English constitutional law and parliament.  King John was forced to sign it by rebellious English Barons after he refused to follow English law and customs.

The English king who helped establish a unified Anglo-Saxon monarchy after defeating the invading Viking army was __________.

This Crusade started when a preacher by the name of Peter the Hermit rallied many of the poor and peasants to take up arms and travel east to Crusade and resulted in the ransack of towns in the Balkans and persecution of European Jews.

_______________ was the period of Christian reconquest of Muslim controlled Spanish lands that lasted until the final expulsion of the Muslims at the end of the fifteenth century.

The ______________invasions of the Ninth and Tenth Centuries were considered the final wave of the Germanic migrations into the West.

Chivalry was the medieval code of ethics and culture of the lower classes.

How did the Black plague spread to Europe?

A _______ was an agricultural estate operated by a lord and worked by peasants (think medieval version of a plantation). It operated like a small community, usually with its own church, mill, oven, and village.