World History: Middle Ages DBQ

Instructions: Study each document 1-11, and answer the individual questions for each in complete sentences. Then in a short essay, answer the following question: Which labels for the Middle Ages best describe the era between 500 and 1400 in Europe: The Dark Ages, the Age of Feudalism, the Age of Faith, or the Golden Age of Europe? In your opinion, which two labels are the best? Discuss and give direct document support for each of your choices – actually using quotes.

*Does not contain outline or space for writing an essay.

Document 1:

Feudalism Chart

Document 2

Source: A Medieval Manor Map

Document 3

Source: http://mnsu.edu/emuseum/history/middleages/church.html

Document 4

Crusades Map & Passage

Document 5

Code of Chivalry

Document 6

Poster over the Bubonic Plague

Document 7

Source: The Middle Ages, Frantz Funck-Beinemann,1922

Document 8

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle which tells of invasions of England during the 800s

Document 9

Gothic Cathedral

Document 10

This excerpt is from the monastic vows of Brother Gerald

Document 11

Source: Gray C. Boyce, “The Medieval Period’ in The 34th Yearbook of the National Council for the Social Studies, 1964, pp 69-70