Social Studies Chapter 16 Feudal and Late Medieval Europe – Flashcards
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Period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance, lasting form about A.D. 500 to 1450
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Middle Ages
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King of the Franks who conquered much of Europe and spread Christianity
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Charlemagne
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Political and social system of the Middle Ages in Europe, in which lords gave land to vassals in exchange and loyalty
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Feudalism
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Powerful landowner
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Lord
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Noble's house and the villages on his land where the peasants lived
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Manor
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People who lived and worked on the manor of a lord or vassal
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Serfs
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Associations of people sharing a trade or craft, intended to control the quantity of their production and to protect their interests
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Guilds
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Italian philosopher who said classical philosophy and Christian theology could exist in harmony
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Thomas Aquinas
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Group of people who live according to set of religious rules
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Religious order
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Military leader who united Muslims to fight the Christians in Palestine in the 1100s
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Saladin
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Series of campaigns, ending in 1492, by which Christian armies drove Muslim rulers out of Spain
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Reconquista
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Roman Catholic court established in 1540 to find and punish those who had strayed from the Roman Catholic faith
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Inquisition
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Series of military expeditions from Christian Europe to Palestine between the 11th and 13th centuries
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Crusades
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Disease that struck western Eurasia in the mid- 1300s, in an outbreak known as the Black Death
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Bubonic plague
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Series of wars between England and France that took place between 1337 and 1453
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Hundred Years' War
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French peasant girl who led the French to victory over the English at Orleans in 1429
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Joan of Arc
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King of England who signed the Magna Carta in 1215
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King John
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List of rights written by England's nobility and signed by King John 1215
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Magna Carta
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Group of representatives with some powers of government
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Parliament
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Right of people not to be imprisoned unlawfully
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Habeas Corpus
