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Vocab
Mia Alatorre
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 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 |