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| What are the Middle Ages? |
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| A time period between about A.D. 500 and 1500. |
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| Why did the weak depend on the powerful for protection? |
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| Because there was no central government. |
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| A fief was a grant (of land usually) to the vassal in exchange for protection and loyalty. |
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| In the beginning of the Middle Ages there were three social classes. What were they? |
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| The Clegry (Leaders of the church), The nobles, and the Peasants. |
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| A large estate owned by the wealthy. |
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| A way of organizing and governing society. |
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| The noble at the top of the fuedal society. |
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| A group of traders and craftsmen working together. |
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| What was the Magna Carta? |
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| British document, signed by King John, which reaffirmed long-standing rights and responsibilities of the English nobility; limited the powers of the king; and recognized that all people, including the government and monarch, are subject to the law. (HistoryCentral.com) |
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Charles the Great (king of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor; conqueror of the Lombards and Saxons
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| Attempts to take over Jerusalem. |
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| What did the Black Death do to the poulation of Europe? |
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| Nobles with no land that serve for the Lord for a grant of land. |
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| Could a vassal have vassals of his own legally? |
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| Yes, bt the land still truly belongs to the Lord of the main manor. |
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