Middle Ages Vocabulary+ Questions
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emmiexcskier on April 2, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 What does the vassal owe to those above him | loyalty, military service,taxes |
| Each group owes what to those below them? | protection and government |
| The RCC can raise an army by doing what? | Granting(giving) land/and or fief |
| What does everyone depend on from the serfs? | food, other basic necesities |
| lord | gives land/fiefs to vassals |
| vassal | one who recieves fief |
| knights | people who pledged to defend their lords' lands |
| serfs | people who couldn't leave their birthplace under the law |
| manor | the lord's estate |
| demesne | the field that the peasants worked on and the lord owned |
| self-reliant | almost everything that is needed was produced by peasants and serfs |
| hierarchy | a social ranking, a social status |
| secular | when one is not religious |
| Pope | heads and leads the Church |
| Bishops | supervised priests, settled disputes over Church teachings and practices |
| Priests | served as the main contact with the Church |
| Clergy | church officials (priest, bishop, arch bishop, cardinal) pope; performs sacraments |
| Sacraments | religious ceremonies occuring throughout one's life |
| cannon law | church law |
| excommunication | a punishment; you're banned from the church, |
| interdict | harsh church punishments, no sacraments in an entire area |
| tithe | payment to the priest, 10% to the church |
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