Vocab Flashcards
An ocean current found around Newfoundland, Canada
North Atlantic Drift
A religious community
Monastery
A king of Franks who spread his empire to include modern-day Germany, France, northern Spain, and most of Italy. He was also the first Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and brought feudalism to Europe
Charlemagne
One of Europe’s largest medieval states that last from 962 to 1806
Holy Roman Empire
Nobles governed and protected people in return for services
Feudalism
An economic and social system where lords profited off of the land peasants worked on.
Manorialism
The conflict that crowned the king of England.
The Battle of Hastings
The authority of the Pope
Papacy
A King or Queen
Monarch
A document the placed limits on king John’s power.
Magna Carta
A series of religious wars to take back the holy land from the Muslim Turks.
The Crusades
The Head of the Catholic Church who was responsible for igniting the Crusades
Pope Urban II
The Muslim general that led the Muslims to victory in the second Crusade
Saladin
A King that joined the third Crusade to defeat the Muslims but eventually signed a truce with them
Richard I
A sickness that traveled very quickly and wiped out most of Europe’s population during the 1300s
The Black Death (The Bubonic plague)
