Paton Ch 15
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23 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Doomsday Book | is a census taken in England |
| Vikings | are people from Scandinavia who raided villages in Europe |
| Kievan Rus | a group of small territories in Eastern Europe ruled by Vikings. |
| Black Death | a plague that swept across Europe and Asia and killed millions of people. |
| English Channel | separates Britain and Ireland from the rest of Europe |
| Anti-semitism | the hatred of Jewish people. |
| Celts | pushed into Ireland, Wales, and Scotland by Angles and Saxons. |
| King John | signed the Magna Carta in 1215. |
| Vassal | a noble who served a lord of a higher rank |
| Hildegard of Bingen | headed a convent in Germany and composed Church music. |
| Charlemagne | was crowned the new Roman Emperor. |
| Alfred the Great | drove the Vikings out of Britain. |
| The Estates-General. | France's first parliament |
| First Crusade | succeeded in driving the Muslims out of Jerusalem. |
| Edward I | called a meeting of people from different parts of England, which came to be called the Parliament |
| Joan of Arc | a young French peasant who led soldiers in the Hundred Years' War |
| Gregory the Great | sent missionaries throughout Europe to convert people to Catholicism |
| Henry II | established the jury system in England |
| King Clovis | Frankish king who became Catholic |
| Thomas Aquinas | a priest who combined Church teachings with the ideas of Aristotle |
| Alps | seperates Italy from the rest of Europe |
| Francis of Assisi | founder of first order of friars who helped the poor and served as missionaries |
| code of chivalry | a guide for knights good behavior |
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