Regents Prep Day 6
Feudalism, the Manor
System, and the Crusades
Reminders
1) 12 School Days left only
2) Regents is 3 weeks away (June 13)
3) Hand in missing homework. YOU KNOW
WHO YOU ARE!!!
4) REGENTS PREP TODAY. GET THERE!
5) A take home test will be coming
I) Geography of Japan
A) Japan is an archipelago
B) Archipelago a chain of islands
****C) Japan has very little natural
resources
D) Isolation Leads to more
traditional economies
****E) Japan has irregular
coastlines (Lots of land by the
shore)
II) Feudalism
****A) Middle Ages Time period after the fall
of the Roman Empire
B) Feudalism Time period where there are NO
KINGS. The RICH control societies
C) Feudal societies have a strict ranking system
D) Caste System People are born into a class.
CANT SWITCH YOUR CASTE. Found also in
Hinduism
III) Japanese Feudalism
A) Emperor
B) Dynamo like Nobles
C) Samurai Japanese
warriors
D) Peasants
E) Code of Bushido
Japanese behavior code /
rules for samurais.
IV) European Feudalism
A) RICH PEOPLE controlled
power in the Middle Ages.
B) Manors A large piece of
land controlled by a Lord.
People lived on the Lords land
in return for working on the
land.
C) The Lord decided who did
what on the manor. Example =
farmer, teacher, doctor, priest
IV) European Feudalism
D) Lord Owns the estate
/ manor
E) Vassals Works for the
Lord. Noble like
F) Knights Warriors
G) Serfs
H) Code of Chivalry
Code of conduct for
knights
V) The Crusades
A) Jews / Muslims / Catholics all claim
Jerusalem as their holy city.
B) 600 A.D. Arabs take over Jerusalem
and force Catholics & Jews to enter
Jerusalem for a fee
C) Pope Urban II Called for a crusades
to take Jerusalem back from the Muslims.
D) Crusades Journeys taken by
Christians between 1095 1270 to win back
Jerusalem from the Arabs.
VI) Effects of the Crusades
A) Arabs win and control Jerusalem
B) Feudalism ends
C) Kings regain power
****D) Cultural Diffusion between Europeans and
Muslims
1) Better, faster, more efficient ships
2) Compass
3) Silk, spices, and Middle Eastern art and literature
4) Muslim / Islam beliefs spread across Europe
5) Renaissance begins in Italy due to returning
crusaders