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Europe Vocab
Europe Vocab Georgina Hernandez
Term | Definition |
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Resident | Someone who lives or stays in a place,such as in a country . |
Collapse | To become too weak to continue |
Institute | To introduce or start system or rule |
Convert | To change from one form to another ,suck as from one religion to another |
Involve | To include something |
Role | Position that someone has in a society |
Landmass | Very large unbroken area of land |
Topography | Arrangement of physical features |
Middle Ages | period between the collapse of the Roman Empire ,about A.D. 500 ,and the beginning of the modern Age,about A.D 1500 |
Medieval | which means related to the Middle Ages |
diffusion | spread |
religious order | A community of men or women devoted to prayer and service and bound by certain vows |
Benedict of Nursia | had a lasting effect on monastic life |
abbot | head of the monastery |
St.Patrick | Was a captured by pirates and sold into slavery in Ireland |
sacraments | sacred rites of the church |
fief | grant of land |
serfs | were peasants who were legally "tied" |
chivalry | christian warrior's code of behavior |
manor | was the self-sufficient estate of a medieval lord |