►  What is the pyramidal structure of feudalism and how did its leaders evolve from tribal groups?

►  What are the economic and social motivations of feudalism?

►  How does the treatment of women under Chivalry actually undermine them?

►  What are the very significant differences in living arrangements between the lords and the serfs?

►  Why do the serfs use perfume in place of bathing?

►  What are the positive consequences of the church as the dominant institution?

►  What are the negative consequences?

►  What is the extreme contrast between the Crusades’ altruistic mission and its harsh reality? 

►  How does the Crusades create changes which mark the beginning of the modern age?

►  How does the Bubonic Plague which devastates the population of Europe, actually result in the revival of towns and trade?