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Hagia Sophia

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Church of “holy wisdom” built under Justinian. Use of arched domes. Now a mosque due to being conquered by Muslims

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Belisarius

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Justinians general conquered North Africa, Italy, and southern Spain

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Autocrat

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A ruler with complete authority

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Justinians code

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Collected and revised laws of Ancient Rome, Catholic Church and monarch modeled laws based on these, used to unite empire

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Great schism of 1054

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Separation of the Easter orthodox and Roman Catholic Church. E orthodox emperor did not want his people worshiping icons, pope disagrees and he has supremacy over the church - they excommunicate each other. Know chart

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Clovis

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Leader during the merovingian dynasty, conquered Gaul in 486 and became catholic in 496

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Battle of tours

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Battle where Charles Martel defeated the invading muslim force in 732

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Charlemagne

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Grandson of Charles Martel, united France, Germany, and Italy by 800. Proclaimed as the “Holy Roman Emperor” by pope Leo III. Revived “classical” learning

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Missi dominici

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Bureaucratic workers sent by Charlemagne to each region of his kingdom to ensure his people were happy and doing their jobs.

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Aachen

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Location where Charlemagne revived his classical learning of mathematics, logic, rhetoric, music, etc.

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Pope Leo III

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Pope who proclaimed Charlemagne as the holy roman emperor

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Treaty of verdun

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When Charlemagnes grandsons divided his kingdom into 3 parts

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Feudalism/ feudal contract

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An agreement between a lord and his serfs, the serfs would have to work the land and provide The Lord with crops and goods in exchange for protection against invading tribes

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Knights

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A man who served a lord as a horse mounted soldier with armor. they followed a code of conduct called chivalry

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Fief

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A vassals income granted to him by his lord for exchange of his services

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Chivalry

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A code of conduct knights had to follow

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Serfs

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Peasants in medieval times

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Manor

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A lords estate

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Troubadours

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Wandering musicians who spread ideas of chivalry

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Excommunication

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To remove someone from the church due to breaking cannon law

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Interdict

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Removing a group of people from the church if their lord, noble, or king is opposed to church teachings

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Simony

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The practice of selling and purchasing church positions

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Monk

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Men living in a monasteries who devoted their lives to prayer and work

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Friar

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A man belonging to a religious order

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Canon law

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Laws involving who the clergy are, who can get married etc. Church laws. Grants papal supremacy to be greater than that of a lord or king

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Middle class

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The social class of those who are not in the highest ir lowest Social rankings. -merchants

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Guild

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Groups that formed, they passed laws and issued taxes, protected interests and competition by regulating prices and labor hours

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Apprentice

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The people being trained so they could enter into guilds

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Tenant farmers

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The new name for serfs once a money economy was brought into the manor, the serfs would now pay for land and protection rather than provide goods to their lords

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Capital

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Money to invest

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Charter

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Lords or kings would grant these to merchants so they’d could set up and rule a town in exchange for a yearly fee

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Partnerships

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Merchants would work together to ensure good business and protection on their routes

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Three field system

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A basic system of farming and crop rotation where two fields would be used to grow crops such as barley and wheat and the other field would be left empty and kept open for animals to graze on, the fields would then be rotated every few years.

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Bill of exchange

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Equivalent to check or credit card, harder to rob traveling merchants.

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