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middle ages vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| crusades | a long series of wars between Christians and Muslims who fought for holy land |
| medieval | referring to the middle ages.950-1300 A.D |
| chealry | the cods of honorable behavior medieval knights |
| parliament | the law making body that governed europe |
| excommunicate | the cast out from the church |
| saladin | Muslim general he led the muslim forces during the 3rd chrsade |
| pope | the head of the Catholic chuch |
| manor | a large cu=county house with land |
| charlemagne | king of the flanks he was a brilliant warrior and strong leader |
| knight | a person who served his lord as a mounted and heavily solider |
| steed | in adventure stories set in the middle ages |
| thomas aquinas | pominteh philosopher he argued rational though could be used to support Christian belief |
| benbdict | Italian saint and monk he created a set of rules for monks follow |
| king Richard 1 | king or england he led Christan soldiers in the 3rd crusade |
| William the conqueror | powerful frnach noble who conquered england he brought furedalism to england |
| magna cata | a document signed in 1215 and by king. |
| king john | signed the mgha cata the great charter on sure 15 1215 A.D. |
| hundred years war | a conflict between England and France that lasted from 1337 to 1453 A.D. |
| black ages | also known as the bubonic plague a deadly disease that sweft through europe |
| protestant | amembe of follower of any of the western christain churches |
| dark ages | is historical peiord of time trod it's Oahu referring to the middle ages. |
| serf | a tenant farmer was bound to a geread itory play of land any of the will of the land lord |
| the great schism | the great schism of 1054 ad was the break up of the christain church into sectioning |
| renaissance | a time period after the dark ages wherer classical learning |
| reformation | a term covering a number in change |
| joustiong | a medieval sport contest in which two opponents on horse back typically knights fight lances |
| lance | a medieval pole weapon or specially speer made to be used by mountad combat |
| court jester | fool was historically on enctortainer during the mideval times |
| vassal | a person under the protection of a furdal lord to when the has vowed home age |
| homage | special honor or respects show publickly |
| fief | an estate of land especially on hole on |
| lord | those who leases land or other proportry |
| feudalism | system in which people were given land and protection by people of higher rank and worked and fought for them the retun |
| balilff | the sedrson person having on the magor if the lourd was absent also acted as chief law aggicer |
| reeve | a senior official with local responsibility under the crown such as chief magistrates of a twon or distice |