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Middle Ages Unit > Medival Vocabulary > Flashcards

Medival Vocabulary Flashcards

1
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Feudalism

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Government by land owning nobles

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Fiefs

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Land grants, large estates

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Noble

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Member of the upper class, included kings,lords,ladies,barons,and knights.

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Vassal

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Noble who served a lord of higher rank and gave him loyalty

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Ladies

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Noble woman

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Knight

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Warrior on horseback, wore armor and protected the kings land

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Squire

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Young noble under care and training if a knight (12-15 years old)

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Page

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Young boy who helped knights of the castle

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Code of Chivalry

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Certain rules for knights to live by

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Heraldry

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System of identification used by knights in battle

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Dubbing

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Special ceremony to make a squire a knight

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Tournament

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Special contests for knights

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Joust

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Contest on horseback between two knights, most popular even at tournaments

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Serfs (Villeins)

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Medieval peasants, bound to the land

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Freeman

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Peasants who paid the noble the right to farm their land

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Excommunicated

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To lose membership in the church

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Heresy

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To go against the churches beliefs

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Crusades

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Series of holy wars fought between Christians and Muslims

19
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Burgs

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Medieval towns

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Burghers

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Merchants in medieval towns

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Manor

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Self sufficient farming communities

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Canon laws

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Laws set up by the Catholic Church

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Clergy

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Religious leaders

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Cathedrals

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Grand churches headed by bishops

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Keep

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Tall tower with thick walls inside the castle

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Castle

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Fortified stone houses

27
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Renaissance

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Rebirth in thinking, art, literature, and culture

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