Chapter 13
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| Charlemagne | King of France, also crowned Emperor of the Roman People in 800
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| Papal States | a region in central Italy ruled by the Pope
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| counts | officials chosen by Charlemagne to rule parts of his empire in his name
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| navigation | planning a course of travel, such as the Vikings crossing the sea
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| sagas | long Icelandic stories about great heroes and events
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| Leif Eriksson | Viking who led settlers to the eastern shores of what in now Canada
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| knights | highly skilled soldier who fought on horseback
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| fief | land given to a knight in exchange for his service
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| vassal | a person who accepts a fief from a lord
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| feudal system | the political and social system built around large estates called manors
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| fealty | a knight's loyalty to the lord who gives him land
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| manorial system | an economic system built around large estates called manors
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| serfs | people who were legally tied to the manor on which they worked
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| Alfred the Great | the first king of the united England and who drove out the Vikings
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| William the Conqueror | Duke of Normandy, conquered England in 1066
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| Domesday Book | the record of William's survey of England's people and their property
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| Eleanor of Aquitaine | powerful French duchess; divorced king of France to marry Henry II of England and ruled all of England and about half of France with him
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| Magna Carta | document that restricted the King of England's power, considered to be the first step towards democracy in England
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| Parliament | governing body that was the result of the king's council in the 1260s and which still makes England's rules today
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| Hugh Capet | first ruler from the Capetian dynasty that ruled and expanded France
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| Otto the Great | Saxon duke who became emperor of the Holy Roman Emperor in the 900s
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| Reconquista | Christian leaders' effort to retake the Iberian peninsula from the Moors
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| piety | a person's level of devotion to religion
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| Pope Gregory VII | pope who excommunicated Henry IV, showing that a pope could stand up to the emperor
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| pontificate | term of office of particular pope
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| Henry VI | Holy Roman emperor who clashed with Pope Gregory VII in 1075
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