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Middle Ages
Test Study
Question | Answer |
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Middle Ages | period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance, lasting from about AD 500 to 1450 |
Charlemagne | king of the Franks who conquered much of Europe and spread Christianity |
feudalism | political and social system of the Middle Ages in Europe in which lords gave land to vassals in exchange for service and loyalty |
lord | powerful landowner |
serf | people who lived and worked on the manor of a lord or vassal |
manor | noble's house and the villages on his land where the peasants lived |
chivalry | code of conduct of knights, focusing on bravery, honor, and respect toward women and the weak |
guilds | associations of people sharing a trade or craft, intended to control the quality and quantity of their production and to protect their interests |
vassals | people in feudal society who received land and protection from lords in return for loyalty |
clergy | people with priestly authority in a religion |
Thomas Aquinas | Italian philosopher who said classical philosophy and Christian theology could exist in harmony |
religious order | group of people who live according to a set of religious rules |
Crusades | series of military expeditions from Christian Europe to Palestine between the 1000s and 1200s |
Saladin | military leader who united Muslims to fight the Christians in Palestine in the 1100s |
Inquisition | Roman Catholic court established to find and punish those who had strayed from the Roman Catholic faith |
bubonic plague | disease that struck western Eurasia in the mid-1300s, in an outbreak known as the Black Death |
Hundred Years' War | series of wars between England and France that took place between 1337 and 1453 |
Joan of Arc | French peasant girl who led the French to victory over the English at Orleans in 1429 |
longbow | weapon that could shoot arrows with enough power to penetrate a knight's armor |
absolute monarchs | kings or queens who had unlimited power and controlled all aspects of society |
English Channel | arm of the Atlantic Ocean that runs between England and France and connects the Atlantic Ocean with the North Sea; both France and England wanted control of this waterway |
common law | system of law based on court decisions and local customs |
King John | king of England who signed the Magna Carta in 1215 |
Magna Carta | list of rights written by England's nobility |
parliament | group of representatives with some powers of government |
habeas corpus | right of people not to be imprisoned unlawfully |