| Question | Answer |
| Medieval | Latin word for Middle Ages
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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. |
