The New and Improved EPIC Middle Ages Scavenger Hunt

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DIRECTIONS: This assignment has earned an Assignment "Cool Factor" of ten. It will be well worth your time because you will come to appreciate life in The Middle Ages. Please use legitimate Internet sites to answer the following questions. Please keep your answers brief and to-the-point, but please be attentive: some of the questions have several parts to them.

Please submit your assignment as a file attachment. You may also submit the assignment as a set of camera photos of the completed pages—photos you’ve taken with your phone and attached.

1. What was a fief and how did one get one?

2. Joust Kidding Around! Try your hand at jousting. Be sure to read the squire’s suggestions. Below please write the name of your horse and please explain what the role of a squire was.

Name of your horse? _________________________

What was the role of a squire? ___________________________

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3. A tough one--What was “the single, largest unifying structure in medieval Europe” during The Middle Ages?

4. What and when was The Black Death and what fraction of the people in Europe died from it?

5. What was the main purpose of the Crusades and how many were there?

6. Have fun playing the Heraldry Game (I recommend you play through the ninth screen (the one with the bluebirds on the shield). Then use Roger the Herald's Notes on Blazonry for Beginners to answer the following questions:

What color is the background of a shield with the description “azure, a unicorn head argent”?

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In what position is the stag on a shield with the description “Gules, a stag couchant proper”? ______________________

In which direction is the animal looking on a shield containing “rampant guardant” in its description?

Briefly, describe a shield with the following description: “per bend azure and sable, a lion rampant argent” by answering the following:

What color(s) is the background? In what position is the lion?

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7. Hats Off! See if you can correctly match the hats to the social role. Which person wore a wimple?

8. Off to medieval medical school for Doctor! Doctor! Mr. M.D.! Congratulations! You are a medieval physician and it’s time to go to work! See if you can heal the three patients. Write the name of the third patient’s disease below and then explain what the sufferer of this third disease had to do regarding "the normal world"? As a bonus, name the rock group related to Doctor! Doctor! Mr. M.D.

9. What does the term medieval mean?

10. What was a serf? If a serf could escape and remain free for one year and one day, what social status would he achieve?