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Unite 1.6 SS
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Feudalism | A decentralized political organization based on a system of exchanges of land for loyalty. |
| Manors | Larges fiefs/estates |
| Manorial System | large fiefs/estates that were economically self sufficient and used for defense. |
| serfs | Worked on the manor and spent their entire lives there. (like peasants) tied to land. |
| three-field-system | Crops were rotated through three fields |
| Estates-General | Was a body to advise the king that included representatives from each of the three classes or estates in France. |
| Estates | three legal classes the clergy, nobility, and commoners. |
| Otto 1 | German king who was crowned holy Roman emperor in 962. |
| Lay Investiture Controversy | A dispute of whether a specular leader rather that the pope could invest bishops with the symbols of office. |
| Magna Carta | Required the king to respect certain rights. (king is William the conqueror) |
| English Parliament | Formed in 1256. increased the rights of the English nobility but not of the general population. |
| Great Schism | In 1054 when the Christian church spilt into 2 branches. |
| Primogeniture | Where the eldest inherits the land from the father |
| Crusades | A series of European military campaigns in the Middle East between 1095 and the 1200s. |
| Marco Polo | A Italian native from Venice. Traveller. |
| Bourgeoisie/Burghers | The middle class between the elite, noble and the clergy and the mass of peasant included shopkeepers, merchants, craftspeople, and small landholders. |
| Little-ice-age | A five century cooling of climate. |
| Anti-Semitism | Anti-Jewish sentiment |
| Renaissance | A period classified by a rival of interest in classical Greek, and Roman literature, art, culture, and civic virtue. |
| Humanism | the focus on individuals rather than God |