world history chapters 13 & 14 pre ib mr soto
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mr sotos chapter 13 & 14 test melbourne high school
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 middle ages | medieval period from 500-1000 |
| franks | germanic people who held the power of the roman province of gaul |
| monastaries | religious communities |
| secular | worldly power involved in politics |
| major domo | the most powerful person in the frankish kingdom |
| caroligian dynasty | the family who would rule the franks from 751-987 |
| pepin | "king by the grace of god" |
| charlemagne | ruled the frankish kingdom in 771after his brother died |
| vikings | raiders from scandinavia |
| feudalism | a political system in which nobles were granted the use of land which belonged to the king in exchange for loyalty and military services |
| lord | landowner |
| fief | granted land |
| vassal | person recieving the fief |
| knights | mounted horseman who pledged to defend their lords land in exchange for fiefs |
| serfs | people who could not lawfully leave their place of birth |
| manor | lords estate |
| tithe | church tax |
| clergy | bishops and priests |
| sacraments | important religious ceremonies |
| canon law | church law |
| holy roman empire | the german-italian empire otto created |
| lay investiture | a ceremony in which kings and nobles appoint church officials |
| simony | the practice in which bishops sold positions in the church |
| gothic | a new style in architecture from the early 1100's |
| crusade | holy war |
| saladin | a kurdish warrior and a muslim leader |
| richard the lion-hearted | an english king who was left to continue the crusade in an attempt to regain the holy land from saladin |
| reconquista | a long term effort to drive the muslims out of spain |
| inquisition | a court held by the church to supress heresy |
| 3 field system | a system where crops would grow on 2/3 of the field and the other would be resting for a year |
| guild | an organization of individuals in the same occupation or business |
| commercial revolution | the expansion of trade and business |
| burghers | merchant-class town dwellers |
| vernacular | everyday language of their homeland |
| thomas aquinas | argued that the most basic religious truths could be explained with logic |
| scholastics | aquinas and his fellow scholars who met at the great university |
| william the conquerer | invader william, duke of normandy |
| henry II | english king who married eleanor aquitaine of france |
| common law | a unified body of law |
| magna carta | a document that guaranteed certian basic political rights |
| parliament | legislative group |
| hugh capet | succesor of the last member of the carolingian dynasty -louis the sluggard |
| philip II | one of the most powerful capetians |
| estates-general | the meeting of the council of the third estate |
| avignon | a city in france |
| great schism | the split of the church |
| john wycliffe | preached that jesus was the true leader of the church not the pope |
| jan hus | taught that the authority of the bible was more important than the authority of the church |
| bubonic plaque | deadly disease in europe |
| hundreds year war | the war that edward III launched for the throne of france |
| joan of arc | a french girl who had visions from god to give the french crown to the true king |
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