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Angles

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Main Germanic peoples who settled in Great Britain in the post-Roman period (invaded the island of Britain in the 5th century ce)

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Franks

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a group of Germanic peoples who lived in western and central Europe during the Early Middle Ages

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Clovis l

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The first king of the Franks and ruler of much of Gaul from 481 to 511, a key period during the transformation of the Roman Empire into Europe

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Charles Martel

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Charles Martel helped to reunite and then ruled the Frankish kingdom. Many scholars and historians credit him for preventing the Muslim invasion of Europe when he defeated the Arabs at the Battle of Tours

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Charlemagne

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Charlemagne or Charles the Great, a member of the Carolingian dynasty, was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and the Emperor of the Romans from 800.

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Battle of Tours

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At the Battle of Tours near Poitiers, France, Frankish leader Charles Martel, a Christian, defeats a large army of Spanish Moors, halting the Muslim advance

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Pope Leo ll

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Pope Leo II was the bishop of Rome from 17 August 682 to his death. He is one of the popes of the Byzantine Papacy. Crowned Charlemagne as holy roman emperor.

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Treaty of Verdun

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At the death of Louis the Pious (Charlemagne’s son) the empire was divided between Charlemagne’s three grandsons.

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Vikings

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Were raiders, pirates, traders, explorers, and colonizers during the 9th to 11th centuries. They often traveled by sea from Scandinavia and took control of areas of Europe and beyond.

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Magyars

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Nomadic horsemen from central Asia. (Now Hungarians)

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Muslims

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People who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition.

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Dark Ages

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Term for the Early Middle Ages, or occasionally the entire Middle Ages, in Western Europe after the fall of the Western Roman Empire that characterizes it as marked by economic, intellectual, and cultural decline.

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Feudalism

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The dominant social system in medieval Europe, in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service, and vassals were in turn tenants of the nobles, while the peasants (villeins or serfs) were obliged to live on their lord’s land and give him homage, labor, and a share of the produce, notionally in exchange for military protection

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Noble

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Belonging to a hereditary class with high social or political status; aristocratic

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Primogeniture

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The right of succession belonging to the firstborn child, especially the feudal rule by which the whole real estate of an intestate passed to the eldest son.

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Vassal

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A holder of land by feudal tenure on conditions of homage and allegiance.

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Lord

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Someone or something having power, authority, or influence; a master or ruler (ran the local manors).

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Liege Lord

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A feudal superior or sovereign.

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Fief

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An estate of land, especially one held on condition of feudal service.

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Fealty

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A feudal tenant’s or vassal’s sworn loyalty to a lord.

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Homage

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Formal public acknowledgment of feudal allegiance.

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Knight

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A man who served his sovereign or lord as a mounted soldier in armor.

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Chivalry

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The medieval knightly system with its religious, moral, and social code.

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Page

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A boy in training for knighthood, ranking next below a squire in the personal service of a knight.

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Squire

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A young nobleman acting as an attendant to a knight before becoming a knight himself.

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Manorialism

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A system where rural society was arranged around a manor house or castle on an estate.

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Manor

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A unit of land, originally a feudal lordship, consisting of a lord’s demesne and lands rented to tenants.

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Serf

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An agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system to work on their lord’s estate.

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Peasant

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a poor farmer of low social status who owns or rents a small piece of land for cultivation

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Demesne

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land attached to a manor and retained for the owner’s own use

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Glebe

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Land belonging to the church (clergy)

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Three-Field System

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a regime of crop rotation in which a field is planted with one set of crops one year

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Battlement

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a parapet at the top of a wall, especially of a fort or castle, that has regularly spaced squared openings for shooting through.

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Bailey

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the outer wall of a castle

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Drawbridge

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a bridge, especially one over a castle’s moat, that is hinged at one end so that it may be raised to prevent people’s crossing or to allow vessels to pass under it.

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Great Hall

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The main room of a palace, castle or large manor house in the Middle Ages, or in a country house of the 16th and early 17th centuries

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Gatehouse

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a type of fortified gateway, an entry control point building, enclosing or accompanying a gateway for a town, religious house, castle, manor house, or other fortification building of importance

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Christendom

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the worldwide body or society of Christians

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Secular Clergy

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deacons and priests who are not monastics or otherwise members of religious life

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Tithes

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one tenth of annual produce or earnings, formerly taken as a tax for the support of the Church and clergy

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Abbey

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the building or buildings occupied by a community of monks or nuns

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Priory

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a small monastery or nunnery that is governed by a prior or prioress

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Benedictine Rule

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a book of precepts written in Latin in 516 by St Benedict of Nursia for monks living communally under the authority of an abbot

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Friar

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a member of any of certain religious orders of men, especially the four mendicant orders

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Knights Templar

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The Knights Templar was a large organization of devout Christians during the medieval era who carried out an important mission: to protect European travelers visiting sites in the Holy Land while also carrying out military operations

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Sacraments

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efficacious signs of grace, instituted by Christ and entrusted to the Church, through which Divine life is given

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Canon Law

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a body of religious law governing the conduct of members of a particular faith

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Excommunication

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the action of officially excluding someone from participation in the sacraments and services of the Christian Church

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Interdict

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an authoritative prohibition

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Simony

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buying or selling of something spiritual or closely connected with the spiritual

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Indulgences

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Church grants full or partial remission of the punishment of sin

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Religious Relic

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an object or article of religious significance from the past

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