► 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?