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Chp 13 Middle Ages
Charlemagne unites Germanic Kingdoms, Feudalism, Chivalry, power of the Church
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The gradual decline of the Roman Empire issued an era in European history called | Middle Ages |
| Religious communities are known as | monastaries |
| When the church becomes more involved in worldly things, it is called | secular |
| Who was responsible for the church becoming more secular? | Pope Gregory I |
| Also known as Charles the Great, this Frankish leader became the first one to be called Holy Roman Emperor | Charlemagne |
| Another name for a titled landowner | lord |
| Name of a piece of land that is granted to other to work | fief |
| The person in a feudal system receiving the fief to work on it | vassal |
| A mounted horsemen who pledge to defend their lord's land in exchange for a fief | knight |
| people who could not lawfully leave the lord's manor and had to stay in the land on which they were born | serf |
| lord's estate | manor |
| church tax vassals had to pay that accounted for 1/10th of their income | tithe |
| complex set of ideals that demanded that a knight fights bravely to his three masters | chivalry |
| Who are the three masters that a knight had to defend | heavenly lord, feudal lord, chosen lady |
| all church officials that fall below the pope | clergy |
| an important religious ceremony | sacrament |
| a medieval church law that was passed that all Christians had to follow and usually pertained to such things as marriage or religious practices | cannon law |
| a ceremony in which kings and nobles had the power to appoint church officials | lay investiture |
| taking away a person's membership in the church...basically being banned | excommunicated |
| order from the pope that all sacraments and religious ceremonies could not be performed on a king's land who was excommunicated | interdict |
| what were the three effects of repeated Germanic invasion | population shifts, downfall of cities , and disruption of trade |
| Name of the treaty that divided Charlemagne's empire amongst the three sons of Louis the Pious | Treaty of Verdun |
| The three predominant social classes in the middles ages are | those who prayed, those who fought, those who worked |
| the political system of the middle ages was.... | feudalism |
| the economic system of the middle ages was | manor system |
| Describe the characteristics of Germanic Society around 600 A.D. | There was no written language, decline of learning, did not have allegiance to their king, had loyalties to local rulers, organized themselves into kingdoms, no common language |
| How was the feudal pyramid structured? | King, Noble/Church official, Knight , artisans/merchants, and peasant. |
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