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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Byzantine empire | A continuation of the roman empire in the middle ages after its division in 395 |
| Charlemagne | Frankish king who conquered most of Europe and was crowned holy roman emperor by pope leo 3rd in the year 800 |
| Code of Justinian | Compilation of the complex system of roman laws became the system law of the Byzantine emperor |
| Crusades | A series of military expeditions launch by the Christian Europeans to win the holy land back from the Muslim control |
| Eastern orthodoxy | Church established in the byzantine empire after the split from the Roman catholic church greek & Russian orthodox orginated from this split |
| Feudalism | A political and social system that developed during the middle ages nobles protection and land in return for service |
| Knights | In the middle ages lesser nobles who served as a mounted warrior for a lord |
| Lords | People of high rank who received land in exchange for their loyalty |
| Magna carta | The royal charter of political rights given to rebellious English barons by king john in 1215 |
| Manor | The mansion of the lord of the manor |
| Manorialism | An economic system based on the manor and lands including a village and surrounding acreage which were administered by a lord it developed during the middle ages to increase agricultural production |
| Middle ages | The period of history between classic antiquity and the Italian renaissance |
| Roman catholicism | The beliefs And Practices of the Catholic Church bases in the Rome |
| Serfs | Men and women who were the poorest members of society peasants who worked the lords land in exchange for protection |
| The pope | Head of the church of rome |
| Thomas Aquinas | Roman catholic Italian theologian and a doctor of the church who is remembered for his attempt to reconcile faith and reason in a comprehensive theology |
| Three field system | A system of farming developed in medieval Europe in which farm land was divided into three fields of equal size and each these was successively planted with a winter crop planted with a spring crop and left unplanted |