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Middle Ages Flashcards

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What is Feudalism and what did it provide for the people?

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Legal System and basis of life. Provided protection, order, and many social classes to help out

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Vassal

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Lower lord

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Fief

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Estate

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Manor

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Lord’s estate

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Serf

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Peasants on a manor

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Knight

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Trained from boyhood to become knights

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chivalary

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Code that knights had to follow

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Common Law

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Secular

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Non-religious

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Excommunication

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Withholding of sacraments and Christian burial.

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Sacrament

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Religious ceremony such as being baptized

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Vernacular

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Language is spoken by people in rome

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13
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Papal supremacy

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Authority over kings and emperors

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Benedictine rule

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Used by monasteries and convents across Europe

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Interdict

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Stopped entire towns, regions or kingdoms from receiving sacraments and Christian burial

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Charter

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Document establishing rights and privileges for the town in exchange for a sum of money.

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Tournaments

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Pretend battles to prepare knights

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Trobadours

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Wandering musicians that sang about knights and their ladies

19
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One Promise that vassals made to their lords in the feudal contract?

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Exchanged vows called the feudal conduct

20
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How was the manor the basis of the feudal economy

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Everything everyone needed was grown/made on the manor

21
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Guild

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Associations that controlled and protected specific trades or businesses. (You had to become an apprentice after 7 years you became a journeyman then became a guild master)

22
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What lead to banking in the Middle Ages?

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The need for capital, money or investment

23
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What is a tenant farmer?

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A peasant became a tenant farmer paying for rent for land

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YOU GOT THIS! KEEP GOING!

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Early Modern Civilization (4 decks)

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