western Europe

Question 1

the franks

Answer 1

are historically first known as a group of Germanic tribes that inhabited the land between the Lower and Middle Rhine in the 3rd century AD, and second as the people of Gaul who merged with the Gallo-Roman populations during succeeding centuries, passing on their name to modern-day France and becoming part of the heritage of the modern French people.

Question 2

pope

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is the Bishop of Rome and the leader of the worldwide Catholic Church.

Question 3

monk

Answer 3

a person who practices religious asceticism, living either alone or with any number of other monks.

Question 4

Missionary

Answer 4

a person sent on a religious mission, especially one sent to promote Christianity in a foreign country.

Question 5

Monastery

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a building or buildings occupied by a community of monks living under religious vows.

Question 6

Convent

Answer 6

a Christian community under monastic vows, especially one of nuns.

Question 7

Clovis

Answer 7

a prehistoric Paleo-Indian culture, named for distinct stone tools found in close association with Pleistocene fauna at Blackwater Locality No. 1 near Clovis, New Mexico, in the 1920s and 1930s.

Question 8

nun

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a member of a religious community of women, especially a cloistered one, living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.

Question 9

Charlemagne

Answer 9

also known as Charles the Great or Charles I, was King of the Franks. He united a large part of Europe during the early Middle Ages and laid the foundations for modern France, Germany and the Low Countries.

Question 10

Carolingian dynasty

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family of Frankish aristocrats and the dynasty (ad 750–887) that they established to rule western Europe.

Question 11

Middle Ages

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the middle period of the three traditional divisions of Western history: classical antiquity, the medieval period, and the modern period.

Question 12

Vikings

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were Norse seafarers, speaking the Old Norse language, who raided and traded from their Scandinavian homelands across wide areas of northern, central and eastern Europe, during the late 8th to late 11th centuries.

Question 13

Mongols

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are an East-Central Asian ethnic group native to Mongolia and China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

Question 14

Genghis khan

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was the founder and Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, which became the largest contiguous empire in history after his death.

Question 15

Khanate

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is a political entity ruled by a Khan or Khagan.

Question 16

The Golden Horde

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a Mongol and later Turkicized khanate established in the 13th century and originating as the northwestern sector of the Mongol Empire.

Question 17

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.

Question 18

Vassal

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

Question 19

Knight

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a person granted an honorary title of knighthood by a monarch or other political leader for service to the monarch or country, especially in a military capacity.

Question 20

Fief

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an estate of land, especially one held on condition of feudal service

Question 21

Chivalry

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

Question 22

Manor

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an estate in land to which is incident the right to hold a court termed court baron, that is to say a manorial court.

Question 23

Serf

Answer 23

an agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system to work on his lord’s estate.