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Question | Answer |
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Eurasia | the large landmass that inclludes both europe and asia |
Topography | refers to the shape and elevation of land in a region |
Middle Ages | a period that lasted from about 500 to about 1500 |
Medieval | Another name for middle age |
Monks | religious men who lived apart from society in isolated communities |
Monasteries | communities of monks |
Knights | warriors who fought on horseback |
Vassal | a knight who promised to support a lord in exhange for land |
Feudalism | Historians call this system of promises that governed the relationships betwwen lords and vassals |
William the Conqueror | a french nobel who was the duke of normandy in northern france, and calimed a right to the english throne and claimed a right to the english throne. |
manor | the large estate owned by a knight or lord. |
serfs | workers who were tied to the land on which they lived. |
eleanor of Aquitaine | -one of the most powerful people of the middle ages -She ruled Aquitaine, a region in southwestern France, as the King's vassal. -1122~1204 |
chivalry | Europeans call their code of honorable behavior for knights |
haiku | short, three lined poems of 17 syllables that describe nature scenes. |
role | assigned behavior |
elements | parts |