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Middle Ages Flashcards

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Visigoths

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A Germanic tribe who stated in Spain before the Ostrogoths

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Ostrogoths

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Another Germanic people, took control of Italy

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Vandals

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A Germanic tribe who invaded and vandals Rome

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Franks

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People who stayed on the European continent

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Clovis

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A military leader who established the Frankish kingdom, and was a Christian convert

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Wergild

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An idea of paying a fine based off your crime to someone

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Ordeal

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An idea of proving guilt in Germanic law based on divine intervention (opposite logic of Salem trials)

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Bishopric

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A group of parishes led by a bishop

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Popes

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Bishops of Rome known as Peter’s successor

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Gregory 1

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Aka Gregory the Great, strengthened the church

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Monk

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A man who isolated himself to devote himself to God

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Monasticism

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The practice of living life like a monk

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Saint Benedict

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A person who wrote a set of rules for the monk community he founded

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Abbot

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A person who led a community of monks, who they were expected to obey

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Missionaries

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When a person goes out to preach their religoon

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Nuns

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Women who live similar to monks

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Abbesses

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A leader of a convent, usually a descendant of royal English houses

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Pépin

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A man who took kingship for himself and his family

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Charlemagne

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Aka Charles the Great, the Frankish king after Pépin, could unify using the church

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Missi dominici

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Two men who ensured the Roman districts carried out the king’s wishes, set up by Charles

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Magyars

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People from Western Asia who moved into Central Europe

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Muslims

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People who came from Spain, and Africa and settled in Europe

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Vikings

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Norsemen from Scandinavia who pillaged many places, yet only settled in Kiev

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Feudalism

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When a lord would give protection to lesser people for service

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Vassal

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A man who served a lord in military

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Knights

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Heavily armed Calvary

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Fief

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A grant of land to a vassal

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Feudal contract

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Unwritten rules determining lord and vassal relationships

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Tournaments

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Contests where knights showed fighting skills

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Chivalry

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A code of ethics knights upheld

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Eleanor of Aquitaine

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A woman who had 2 husbands and 8 kids, who also created a court celebrating cultural activities

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William of Normandy

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A man who invaded England and took the throne from king Harold

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Henry 2

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A monarch who increases the royal courts power, increasing his in the process

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Thomas a becket

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An archbishop who believed catholic courts could try clerics, was killed by knights

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King John

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The monarch who made the Magna Carta aka the Great Charter

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Edward 1

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A man who reigned when parliament emerged

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Parliament

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A group of 2 knights, all nobles and 2 people from every town

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House of Lords

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Nobles and church lords

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House of Commons

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Knights and townspeople

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Hugh Capet

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The first king of the Capetian

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Phillip 2 Augustus

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Expanded France’s income and power, and expanded France

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Louis 9

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A ruler who was religious (a Catholic saint), and heard complaints in persom

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Phillip 4

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Aka Phillip the fair, expanded bureaucracy and made parliament,end with clergy, nobles, and peasants

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Estates

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Social classes

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First estate

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The clergy

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Second estate

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The nobles

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Third estate

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The townspeople and peasamts

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Otto 1

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A Saxon German king who controlled the church and was crowned emperor (a title previously only used in Rome)

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Fredrick 1

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An Italian king who tried to unite Rome, Papal States, and Italy unsuccessfully

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Frederick 2

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Another Italian king who tried to include the church in his empire

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Slavs

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People who formed Polish and Bohemian kingdoms

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Cyril and Methodius

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2 Byzantine brothers who were missionaries who converted eastern Slavics to Orthodox Christianity

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Alexander Nevsky

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A prince of Novgorod who was rewarded with the title of “grand prince” by the leader of the Mongol Empire

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Justinian

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An emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire which included Italy, Spain, Asia Minor, Palestine, Syria, and North Africa

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Eastern Orthodox Church

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The Christian’s church of the Byzantine Emoire

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Patriarch

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The head of the Orthodox Church, selected by emperor

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Schism

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A separation

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Infidels

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Non Christian’s, like Muslims

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Urban 2

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A person who encouraged Christian’s to join the Holy war

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Saint Bernard of Clarivaux

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A leader who fails to start another crusade

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Saladin

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A person who led Muslim forces and made Jerusalem fall

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Frederick Barbarossa

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1/3 rulers who attempted a 3rd crusade, but he drowned in a river

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Richard 1

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1/3 rulers who attempted a 3rd crusade, he negotiated access to the Holy Land

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Phillip 2 Augustus

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1/3 rulers who attempted a 3rd crusade

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Pope Innocent 3

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The person who started the 4th crusade

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