Ch. 8 & 9: The Middle Ages
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- Flanders
- the textile headquarters of Europe
- Fief
- land granted to a vassal in return for military services
- Charlemagne
- Son of Pepin, fierce warrior, under took Italy, Lombard state, Spain, Bavarians, Saxons in Germany, Mongols, Slavs, and all that he conquered he converted to the catholic faith, he established a palace school to encourage learning, the Pope crowned him Holy Roman Emperor, on Christmas day
- Kiev
- Prom,inent trading city located on the Dnieper River
- Pravada Russkaia
- Kiev Russia's first code of law
- Feudalism
- the goverment structure that explains the divisions of land between a king and those to whom he granted land
- Primogeniture
- the tradition that the oldest son will inherit the fief
- Domain
- the land the king keeps unde his control
- Taiga
- a forested region that recieved abundant rainfall but had very cold, long winters
- Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
- A series of Chronicles or yearly records of events
- Serf
- Peasnts bound to the land
- Tournaments
- Were set up so that the Knights could poractice their warrior skills when they were not in battle
- Vladimir I
- Attempted to unify Kiev Russia through Religion
- Cyrillic
- Russian Alphabet
- Steppe
- a grassy, largely treeless plain on which the Rus grew grain