12 Flashcards
Not slaves but still bound to the manor
serfs
Economic system
Manorialism
Large estate which covered hundreds to thousands of acres
Manor
Local officials who oversaw land management during Charlemagne’s reign
Counts
Provided protection for the peasants
Lord
Noble who serves the lord
vassal
Estate with peasants
fief
Decentralized government system
feudalism
Free people living on the manor
Peasants
Transition between ancient and modern times
dark ages
First Frankish king to accept Catholicism.
clovis
Kept the Muslims out of Europe at the battle of Tours
charles martel
First holy Roman emperor.
charlemagne
Code that a knight lived by.
chivalry
Pope Leo III named which king Roman emperor and protector of the church?
Charlemagne
Staple diet for majority of peasants.
Bread
During the Middle ages, the Roman Catholic church…
Became the unifying force in Western Europe
Which group reunited W Europe after it had been broken down into small kingdoms by Germanic invaders?
Franks
What was the name of the noble rebellion caused by English king, John?
First Baron’s War
During the Middle ages, mass was said in what language?
latin
Those who challenged the church were called..
heretics
The Bayeux tapestry was made to commemorate what battle in 1066?
Battle of Hastings
Archbishop of Canterbury executed because he believed clergy should not be tried in secular courts.
Thomas Becket
Religious punishment where all subjects cut off from sacraments.
Interdict
The Inquisition was set up to find and punish?
Heretics
Anglo-Saxon ruler who wanted a revival in learning and had books translated from Latin to vernacular.
Alfred the Great
One role of the parish priest was to?
Offer guidance to people within a village
Why was Feudalism created?
Emperors and kings could not provide protection from invaders
King ___ was forced to sign the Magna Carta.
john
The new ___ class derived their income from trade and business.
middle
Because of ___ in the 1200’s, many European countries expelled the ___ because they were “enemies of Christ”.
anti-semitism, jews
The Church taught that all were sinners, depended on God’s grace to get into heaven, and that grace received through ___.
sacrements
Nobles could influence the church by giving clergy manors and ___ ___.
Lay investures
William the conqueror, in order to tax people properly, commissioned the first census in Western Europe called the ___ ___.
Domesday book
Henry II set up a new system of common law where the ___ ___ would establish whether there was enough evidence to put someone on trial.
Grand Jury
King Alfred of wessex defeated the ___ in 886 and established the kingdom of England.
Danes
The holy Roman emperor was elected by the ___.
diet
Specifically, how were the Jews treated during the latter part of the middle ages and why?
Specifically, what did the French monarchy do to make itself more powerful?
What were the reasons for the holy Roman emperors never becoming very powerful?
