Chapter 4 Sections 1-3

Question 0

Charlemagne

Answer 0

Charles the great
great effort to unify kingdom
great ruler
46 year reign
conquered lands
was Christian

Question 1

mostly farmers + herders
no written language
no customs, law, cities, education, trade, money
small population
small kingdoms

Answer 1

Germanic tribes

Question 2

another name for Charlemagne

Answer 2

emperor of the Romans

Question 3

Charlemagne’s administrators/officials/ agents who checked in roads, listened to grievances, and saw justice be done

Answer 3

missi Dominici

Question 4

Vikings

Answer 4

men of the north, Norseman, Norman
expert sailors from Scandinavian countries
modern day terrorists

Question 5

tribe that settled in Hungary in cerca 900

overran Eastern Europe towards Italy but we’re eventually pushed back after 50 years

Answer 5

Magyars

Question 6

law and tradition in which the first son if the family inherited everything as a way to keep land holdings intact

Answer 6

primogeniture

Question 7

a substitute for government in which a loss let organized system of rule had powerful lords dividing their landholdings among lesser lords and basis for everything is land

Answer 7

feudalism

Question 8

a parcel of land

Answer 8

fief

Question 9

person of high power who had several vassals

Answer 9

lord

Question 10

lesser lords who pledged service and loyalty to the greater lord

Answer 10

vassal

Question 11

a code of conduct in which knights were supposed to be brave loyal and true to their word

Answer 11

chivalry

Question 12

economic system based in the manor

Answer 12

manorialism

Question 13

peasants who lives on the manor and were bound to the land

Answer 13

serfs

Question 14

system where two out if three fields were planted while the third was fallow. it rotated every year to preserve the nutrients in the soil

Answer 14

three field system

Question 15

empty

Answer 15

fallow

Question 16

the isolated, cloistered place where monks lived

Answer 16

monasteries

Question 17

rule for holy people where they took vows of chastity obedience and poverty and divided their day into work pray and study

Answer 17

Benedictine Rule

Question 18

church law

Answer 18

canon law

Question 19

worldly, having nothing to do with religion

Answer 19

secular

Question 20

to pillage sack or loot

Answer 20

plunder

Question 21

fall of the Roman Empire
defense into chaos and anarchy
developed feudalism
the only thing that survived the fall was Christianity

Answer 21

Western Europe

Question 22

duke, earl, count

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titles of nobility

Question 23

friars founded by St Francis of Assisi

Answer 23

Franciscan friars

Question 24

important order of nuns

Answer 24

Dominican nuns

Question 25

three types of nun orders

Answer 25

poor Clare’s , Dominican nuns, beguines