Middle ages in western europe Flashcards
North Atlantic Drift
A current that provides good fishing areas around the nortwestern European coast. It creates a mild climate for Western Europeans, it makes southern europe have a meditteranean climate
Monastery
Where Monks live
Charlemagne
An emporer who expanded the Franks into an empire. He tried to make Christianity the religion of the Empire. He was declared the emporer on Christmas day. he relied on local officials to help him govern. He started Feudalism to western europe
Holy Roman Empire
a polity in Central and Western Europe, usually headed by the Holy Roman Emperor. It developed in the Early Middle Ages and lasted for almost 1,000 years until its dissolution in 1806 during the Napoleonic Wars.
Feudalism
A political and social system that relies on ties of loyalty and duty among members of the nobility.
Manorialism
A political and social order that relied on the lands and their serfs to provide.
The Battle of Hastings/William The Conqueror
The battle for William the Conquerer to be the first french king of england.
Papacy
Monarch
The leader of an empire
Magna Carta
A document that placed limits on the ruler’s power, often the king. And it gives people the right to trial of jury.
The Crusades
A series of religious wars initiated sometimes initiated or sometimes targeted at the catholic church.
Pope Urban II
Head of the Roman Catholic Church
Richard I
A winner of one of the battles
Saladin
The Islamic opponent
The Black Death
A plague that spread rapidly in the mid 1300s, many people died because there was nor much medicine or things that could cure it at the time as they weren’t as advanced in Pharmacology. From 40 to 60 million people died from this disease. This led to a raise in wages because there was a decrease in the amount of workers.