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Chivalry: | Demanded that a knight fought bravely for 3 masters. Also protected the weak and the poor. |
Tournaments: | Combined recreation with combat training. Was for amusement to the crowd |
Epic poems: | Recounted a hero's deeds and adventures. Were usually very long. |
Troubadours: | Traveling poet musicians at the castles and courts of Europe. |
Women's role in society: | Most women were powerless, thought being inferior to men. |
Peasant women: | Endless labor in home and in the fields, bore children and took care of their families. |
Noblewomen: | Could inherit an estate from her husband. |
A knights training: | Sons of nobles who began training for knighthood at the age of 7. Around the age of 14, he would become a squire, like a servant to a knight. At the age of 21, he was ready to be a full-fledged knight. |
Warriors role: | They got land in exchange for military services. |
Technology Changes in warfare | Saddles enabled the rider to stay firmly seated and stirrups enabled him to ride and handle heavier weapons. |
Mantlet: | Shielded soldiers. |
Battering ram: | Made of heavy timber with sharp metal tip/Swung like a pendulum to crack castle walls or to knock down a draw bridge. |
Siege tower: | Had a platform on top that lowered like a drawbridge/could support weapons and soldiers. |
Trebuchet: | Worked like a giant slingshot/propelled objects up to a distance of 980 feet. |
Tortoise: | Moved slowly on wheels/Sheltered soldiers from falling arrows. |
Mangonel: | Flung huge rocks that crashed into castle walls/propelled objects up to a distance of 1,300 feet. |
Knights: | Armored horsemen. |
The code of Chivalry for knights glorified both combat and_____ | Love. |
Clergy: | Bishops, priests and the Pope |
Sacraments: | Important religious ceremonies. |
Canon law: | Marriage and religious practices. |
Two church punishments were: | Excommunication and interdict. |
Lay investiture: | Ceremony in which kings and nobles appointed church officials. |
Holy Roman Empire: | Strongest state in Europe until about 1100. |
All medieval Christians kings, and peasants alike were all subjects to ________: | Canon law |
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