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Medieval | Latin word for Middle Ages |
Middle Ages | Time period between 500 and 1500 AD after the fall of the Roman Empire. |
Charlemagne | Became the emperor of the former Roman Empire in Western Europe. Spread Christianity as he conquered other lands. Very tall. |
King John of England | King of England in 1199 and governed with much force. He was the reason the Magna Carta was written. |
Magna Carta the "Great Charter" | Set of laws that limited the power of the king. |
Feudalism | the system of obligations that governed the realtionship between lords and vassals in the Middle Ages. |
Knight | Warriors on horseback who had a code of chivalry to live by. |
Vassal | A knight who owned a piece of land. |
Chivalry | the code of honor a knight lived by. |
Manor | A large estate owned by a knight or lord. It was a way of organizing feudal lands. |
Fief | a piece of land in medieval Europe. |
Viking | Fierce invaders from the Northern (Denmark, Sweden, Finland) |
Pope Benedict | Came up with the rules most monasteries followed. |
Monks | religious men who lived apart from society in isolated communities. |
Monasteries | communities where the monks lived. |
Roman Catholic Church | was the center of life in the Middle Ages. |
Nuns | lived in convents like a monk but female. |