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7th grade · Social Studies · Unit 5 of 11

Medieval Europe

Feudalism, towns and the Black Death

What your child practices

How medieval Europe was organized (kings, nobles, knights and peasants), the role of the Church and guilds, the Magna Carta, the Black Death, and how change came to the feudal system.

California Content Standards learning standard: 7.6.1; 7.6.3; 7.6.5 · the geography of Europe, feudalism and the development of English legal practices

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    The Black Death arrived in Europe in the 1340s. What was one cause of its spread?

    • Poor harvests only
    • Crop failure only
    • Fleas on rats traveling along trade routes
    • A volcanic eruption

  2. Question 2

    What was a guild?

    • A religious ceremony
    • A sort of castle
    • A group of craftspeople or merchants who set standards and protected their trade
    • A type of noble title

  3. Question 3

    What was the three-field system?

    • A tax paid three times a year
    • A plan for building a castle
    • A way of dividing the army
    • A farming method that rotated crops and left one field resting each year

  4. Question 4

    What was a fief?

    • A merchant's cart
    • A church tax
    • A type of armor
    • Land that a lord gave to a vassal in return for loyalty

  5. Question 5

    Which language was used by the Church and scholars across much of western Europe?

    • Latin
    • Arabic only
    • Old Norse only
    • Mandarin

  6. Question 6

    What was the tithe?

    • A tax paid only by nobles to the king
    • A tax, about one tenth of a person's income or crops, paid to the Church
    • A payment to a guild for a loan
    • A fine for being late

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