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Vocab
Mia Alatorre
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 a system or rule |
| Convert | To change from one form to another, such as from one religion to another |
| Involve | To include something |
| Role | Position that someone has in a society |
| Landmass | Very large, unbroken area |
| Topography | an arrangement of physical features |
| Middle ages | the period between the collapse of the Roman Empire, about A.D 500, and the beginning of the Modern Age, about A.D 1500 |
| medieval | Related to the middle ages |
| Charlemagne | Pepin's son Charlemagne became one of the most famous rulers of the early Middle ages |
| Diffusion | spread |
| Religious order | A community of men or woman devoted to prayer and service and bound by certain vows |
| Benedict of Nursia | An Italian monk |
| Abbot | Head of the monastery |
| St. Patrick | one of the earliest and most famous British,Christian boy named St.Patrick |
| Sacraments | sacred rites of the church |
| Fief | a grant of land |
| serf | peasants who were legally "tied" to the lords land and could not leave it |
| chivalry | Christian warriors code of Behavior |
| manor | Self-sufficient estate of a medieval lord |