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FISK SS CH. 14 voc
FISK SS Ch. 14 vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Domesday Book | a book made in 1086 that helped King William keep track of all the people and property in England |
| Middle Ages | a period in European history that lasted from about 500 to about 1500 |
| Magna Carta | an English charter that limited royal power |
| feudalism | a social, politcal, and economic system used in the Middle Ages |
| manor system | in the Middle Ages, a way to manage feudal lands |
| three-field rotation | in the Middle Ages, a system whereby the planting of crops on manor lands alternates between three fields |
| Crusades | major military expeditions by Christians to win back control of Palestine (Holy Land) and to protect the Byzantine Empire |
| Silk Road | a trading route that connected Europe and lands of the former Roman Empire with China |
| The Plague | an attack of bubonic plague that killed about 25-30 percent of Europe's population from 1347 to 1352 |
| bubonic plague | an epidemic spread to humans by fleas from rats |