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socials mid term
socials studie stuff
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Gaul | Frankish settlers who loved to make war. |
| wergild | Man money,that is, a person's value in money. |
| salic code | The franks crime and punishment code |
| prodigies,portents | Omens that predict future occurrence's |
| social class | was a way of distinguishing peoples ranks from lord's to serfs to farmers. |
| Charlemagne | came into power over western Europe in 768 c.e and established a proper government over Europe |
| missi dominici | the lords messengers, would go out to villages under Charlemagne's rule and make sure everyone was treated properly |
| Carolingian empire | a kingdom that ruled over all of western Europe |
| renaissance | A rebirth or revival, especially of the arts |
| Celtic people | A western Europe culture. The Scottish, Irish, Welsh, Cornish and Brenton are all what? |
| Anglo-Saxons | thought of themselves as warriors, but where really farmers that lived in small villages. |
| Epic | a long poem telling about heroic deeds and events |
| Beowulf | is an epic/ great story about who. |
| St.Patrick | brought Christianity and a healthy respect of learning to Ireland |
| monks | religious men who live their lives with a deep understanding and following of religion |
| parchment | And old type of paper |
| Vikings | vicious men who pillaged and burned villages and sailed in swift long boats. |
| Danegeld | small payment to the vikings to leave that town alone. |
| fjord | a long narrow salt water bay with high cliffs along its sides |
| skald | a Scandinavian poet who recited poems at formal gatherings |
| thrall | where viking slaves that served them all their life |
| runes | ancient viking righting |
| thing | the viking parliament where all free adults could share their thoughts |
| outlaw | someone who has disgraced themselves so badly they are kicked out of their kingdom or group |
| Vassal | one who swears loyalty to a lord |
| feudal contract | the bargain between a lord and his vassal |
| housecarl | a soldier |
| cavalry | soldiers on horseback |
| propaganda | an effort to spread opinions or beliefs sometimes by distorting truths |
| OpusAnglicanum | translated to the work of the english |
| allegiance | loyalty |
| Homage | formal acknowledgment |
| self-sufficient | can do by yourself or itself |
| thatching | using special grass for roofing |
| fletching | fitting feathers on arrows |
| demense | lands set aside for the lord of a manor |
| sustainable | can be sustained |
| Fallow | left unplanted |
| three field system | two fields would be planted and the third would remain fallow |
| excommunicate | to cancel a persons membership in the church |
| tithe | money or produce given to the church worth approximately one tenth of ones income |
| trial by ordeal | to torture someone to get an answer out of them |
| Chivalry | the code in which the knight swore to uphold |
| Katana | a long samurai blade |
| Wakizashi | a short samurai blade |
| bushido | the samurai's way of living |
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liam gottschalk
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