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Chapter 9 Christian Europe Emerges 600-1200
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| King of the Franks (768-814);emperor (800-814). Thru a series of military conquests he established the Carolingian Empire, which ecompassed all of Gaul and parts of Germany and Italy. Thru illiterate himself, he sponsored a brief intellectual revival | Charlemagne (742-814) |
| Dispute between the popes and the Holy Roman Emperors over who held ultimate authority over bishops in imperial lands | Investiture controversy |
| Literally "middle age", a term that historians of Europe use for the period 500-1500, signifying its intermediate point between Greco-Roman antiquity and the Renaissance | Medival |
| Living in a religious community apart from secular society and adhering to a rule stipulating chastity, obedience, and poverty. It was a prominent element of medival Christianity/Buddhism. Monasteries were the primary centers of learning/literacy in euro | Monasticism |
| The eastern portion of the Roman Empire from the 4th century onward, taken from "Byzantion", and early name for Constantinople, the Byzantine capital city. The empire fell to the Ottomans in 1453 | Byzantine Empire |
| State established at Kiev in Ukraine 879 by Scandanavian adventurers asserting authority over a mostly Slavic farming population | Kievan Russia |
| A formal split within a religious community | Schism |
| In medieval Europe, a large self-sufficient landholding consisting of the lord's residence (manor house), outbuildings, peasant village, and surrounding land | Manor |
| Harnessing method that increased the efficiency of horses by shifting the point of traction from the animal's neck to the shoulders; it adoption favors the spread of horse-drawn plows and vehicles | Horse collar |
| In medival Europe, an agricultural laborer legally bound to a lord's property and obligated to perform set services for the lord. In Russia, some serfs worked as artisans and in factories; serfdom was not abolished there until 1861 | Serf |
| Armed pilgrimages to the Holy Land by Christians determined to recover Jersualem from Muslim rule. The Crusades brought an end to western Europe's centuries of intellectual and cultural isolation | The Crusades |
| In medival Europe, land granted in return for a sworn oath to provide specified military service | Fief |
| Journey to a sacred shrine by Christians seeking to show their piety, fulfill vows, or gain absolution for sins. Other religions also have pilgrimage traditions, such as the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca and the pilgrimages made by early Chinese Buddhists | Pilgrimage |
| In medival Europe, a sworn supporter of a king or lord commited to rendering specified military service to that king or lord | Vassal |
| The central administration of the Roman Catholic Church, of which the pope is the head | Papacy |
| Loose federation of mostly German states and principalities, headed by an emperor elected by the princes. It lasted from 962-1806 | Holy Roman Empire |
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