Middle Ages
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- lord
- a noble who owned and controlled all his activities on his manor
- nun
- woman who devotes her life to religion
- Pope Urban 2nd
- pope who carde for first Crusade to reclame Jerusalem for the other muslims
- Alps
- a mountain range which seperates Italy from the rest of europe
- plague
- terrible disease
- temperate climate
- steady weather over a long period of time
- Magna Carta
- charter, a legal document written by English lords in 1215
- King John 1st
- crowned in 1199, demanded money from the lords to pay forward
- Seine River
- a river that flows from Eastern france northward into the english Channel
- munk
- man who devotes his life to Christianity
- convent
- where woman or nuns lived
- Benedict
- Italian monk, founder of Benedict Order
- manor
- large estates owned by wealthy nobles
- Caucasus Mts.
- located in Europe , seperate asia from Europe
- Middle Ages
- a period between ad 500-1500 in european history
- serf
- workers who had mre rights than slavees
- British Isles
- a group of the northwestern coast of continetal Europe
- guild
- trraders and craftworkers orginized themselves in groups
- deforestation
- clearing the land to make space
- knight
- a warrior dressed in armor
- fief
- property givin to a vassal
- Pyrennes Mts.
- located on the iberian peninsula near the Bay of biscay
- feudalism
- a system for orginizing and governing a society
- Normanndy
- regions where Normans settled, adopted Christianity
- North Europena plain
- large fertile area that extends from the Atlantic Ocean to the ural Mts.
- William the Conqueror
- 1st Norman king, came from normandy, crossed the English channel
- Carpathian Mts.
- located in Southern Europe in a wide U formation
- Crusades
- any of the Journys battles undertaken by European Christians between 1995 1270 to win control of holy land
- north Sea
- a large arm off the Atlantic o cean between Great Britan and continental europe
- England
- part of the United Kingdom on the island of great britan
- Chartres
- city in northwestern France, noted for cathedral
- cathedral
- a large or important Christian church
- Ural Mts.
- in North Eastern Europe that form a border between between Asia and Eorope
- monastery
- community in which monks led lives devoted to religion
- Aachen
- in Germany, capital of Charlamagnes empire c. 800
- vassal
- took an oath of loyalty to the lord pledging to serve him
- charlemagne
- the greatest leader of the Franks
- Fancis of Assisi
- ad 1181-1226 Italian monk who devoted life to serve poor and sick
- Eurasia
- large land mass that included the continents of eorope and Asia
- saint
- woman or man considered by a group to be holy