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Chapter Thirteen
Term | Definition |
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Charlemagne | King of France, also crowned Emperor of the Roman People in 800 |
Papal States | A region in central Italy ruled by the Pope |
Counts | Officials chosen by Charlemagne to rule parts of his empire in his name |
Navigation | Planning a course of travel, such as the Vikings crossing the sea |
Sagas | Long Icelandic stories about great heroes and events |
Leif Eriksson | Viking who led settlers to the eastern shores of what is now Canada |
Knights | Highly skilled soldiers who fought on horseback |
Fief | Land given to a knight in exchange for his services |
Vassal | A person who accepts a fief from a lord |
Feudal System | The political and social system of exchanging land for service |
Fealty | A knight's loyalty to the lord who gives him land |
Manorial System | An economic system built around large estates called manors |
Serfs | People who were legally tied to the manor on which they worked |
Alfred the Great | First king of the united England and who drove out the Vikings |
William the Conqueror | Duke of Normandy, conquered England in 1066 |
Domesday Book | The record of William's survey of England's people and their property |
Eleanor of Aquitaine | Powerful French duchess; divorced the king of France to marry Henry || of England and ruled all of England and about half of France with him |
Magna Carta | Document that restricted the king of England's power, considered to be the first step toward democracy in England |
Parliament | Governing body that was the result of the king's council in the 1260s and which still makes England's laws today |
Hugh Capet | First ruler from the Capetian dynasty that ruled and expanded France |
Otto the Great | Saxon duke who became emperor of the Holy Roman Empire in the early 900s |
Reconquista | Christian leaders' effort to retake the Iberian peninsula from the Moors |
Piety | A person's level of devotion to religion |
Pope Gregory V|| | Pope who excommunicated Henry |V, showing that a pope could stand up to the emperor |
Pontificate | Term of office of a particular pope |
Henry |V | Holy Roman Emperor who clashed with Pope Gregory || in 1075 |