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Busby-Chapter 14
Medieval Europe
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Charlemagne | (742-814 A.D.)King of the Franks who was later crowned emperor of the former Roman Empire in western Europe. |
| William the Conqueror | (c. 1028-1087)Norman king whe conquered England in 1066. |
| King John | (1167-1216) English king whose lords forced him to agree to the Magna Carta in 1215, which limited royal power. |
| Domesday Book | A book made in 1086 that helped King William keep track of all the people and property in England. |
| Middle Ages | A period in European history that lased from about 500-1500 A.D. |
| Magna Carta | An English charter (1215) that limited royal power. |
| Christine de Pisan | A medieval writter that wrote books and peotry protesting the way male authors both glorified and insulted women. |
| monk | A man who devotes his life to religion and lives in a monastary. |
| nun | A woman that devotes her life to religion and lives in a convent. |
| monastary | A community where monks live, study, and pray. |
| convent | a community of nuns |
| missionary | a person who teaches a religion to people with different beliefs |
| monarch | a government in which a king, queen, or emperor has spremem power |
| serf | a person who lived on and farmed feudal land |
| knight | feudal warrior trained and prepared to fight on horseback |
| chivalry | a knight's code of behavior |
| guild | group of craftspeople or merchants who are united by a common interest |
| lady | a women of nobility |
| feudalism | a social, political, and economic system used in the middle ages |
| manor system | in the Middle Ages, a way to mange feudal lands |
| three-field rotation | in the Middle Ages a system whereby the planting of crops on manor lands alternates between three fields |
| Alexius Comnenus | 1048–1118 Byzantine emperor who appealed to the pope for Christian knights to fight against the Turks. p. 407 |
| Urban II | c. 1035–1099 Pope who issued a plea to free the Holy Land Palestine from the Turks, launching the Crusades. p. 407 |
| Marco Polo | c. 1254–1324 Venetian merchant, world traveler, and writer who remained in China as a guest for 17 years. p. 409 |
| epidemic | a disease that spreads quickly (p. 410) |
| Crusades | major military expeditions by Christians to win back control of Palestine (Holy Land) and to protect the Byzantine Empire (p. 407) |
| Silk Road | a trading route that connected Europe and lands of the former Roman Empire with China (pp. 112, 409) |
| Plague | an attack of bubonic plague that killed about 25–30 percent of Europe’s population from 1347 to 1352 (p. 410) |
| bubonic plague | an epidemic spread to humans by fleas from rats (p. 410) |
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