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- a system of power in Europe during the Middle Ages. The kings and queens had the most power followed by the nobles, knights and peasants.
- feudalism
- Noble qualities knights were suppose to have or possess.
- Chivalry
- From the middle ages
- medieval
- The men of the church who performed the services of the church.
- Clergy
- The years between ancient and modern times [A.D. 500 - A.D. 1500]
- Middle Ages
- A deadly disease, carried by flea infested rats that devastated or killed one third of Europe's population
- Black Death or Black Plague
- Preventing someone from participating in church life.
- Excommunicate
- In medieval Europe, a man who promised to be a loyal landowner, who, in return gave him a share of the land.
- vassal
- Usually peasants or poor people that worked or belonged to the land or manor.They couldn't marry or leave without the lords permission
- Serfs
- An unpaid worker who was being trained in a particular craft.
- Apprentice
- Ability to supply their own needs.
- Self-sufficient
- a large estate that often included a village, as well as farmlands inhabited by poor people or peasants
- Manor
- Traveling performers who wandered from place to place singing about the chivalrous deeds of knights for their ladies.
- Troubadours.
- All of the people in town who practiced a certain trade.
- Guild