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Chapter 13
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History
9th Grade
11/13/2010

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Term
Medieval Europe is...?
Definition
Roman
Term
Political and military power is
Definition
Secular (affairs)
Term
Name a few problems that the Germanics caused
Definition
Trade disruption
Disintegration of cities
Population Dispersal to countryside
Significant decline in learning/knowledge/reason/culture

People don't feel safe leaving their houses
Cities had crime, corrupt government
People wanted to live on their own
No money for learnign
Term
Basic social, economic, and political arrangements were centered around the...
Definition
Feudal System
Term
Structure of Feudalism
Definition
Lords possessed land
Would allow surfs to live on land
Give surfs protection for service, labor, etc.
Term
What was significant about the church?
Definition
Used church to cope with things
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Feudal society contained 3 classes
Definition
Nobility: Those who fight
Clergy: Those who pray
Peasantry: Those who work
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Franks were from?
Definition
Gaul, France
Term
Brought Christianity to Gaul, Kingdom of Franks
Definition
Clovis
Term
Religious outpost, spiritual island
Definition
Monasteries
Term
Male inhabiters of Monasteries
Definition
Monks
Term
Instrumental in getting monasteries
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Benedict
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Instrumental in getting convent system up and running
Definition
Scholastica (said to be Benedict's twin sister)
Term
Expanded power in Roman church
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Pope Gregory I
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Non-religious, non-spiritual
Definition
secular, blending with military and political power
Term
This man was Major domo and vastly expanded Frankish Empire
Definition
Charles Maytel "the hammer"
Term
Franks fought Muslims
Definition
Battle of Tours
Franks won
Term
"king by the grace of God"
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Pepin the Short
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Carolingian Dynasty
Definition
Started with Pepin and went to Charlemagne
Term
Attacked Rome
Definition
Lombards
Term
Kif you defy king, you defy God
Definition
King by grace of God
Term
Outright true teachings
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Dogma
Term
Calls on military leaders in Europe to coem save the Catholic church from a revolt of Roman citizens
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Pope Leo III
Term
Pope granted secular authority, fusing religious and secular power of Charlemagne
Definition
Roman Emperor
Term
Disintegration of Charlemagne's Empire
Definition
Charlemagne passes it to his 3 grandsons
Lothiar
Charles the Bald
Lois the German
Term
Divided Charlemagne's kingdom into 3 parts
Influence from Vikings, Magyars, Muslims, Mongols
Definition
Treaty of Verdun
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Act or ceremony
Definition
Homage
Term
Vassal swore an oath, loyalty forever
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Oath of Fealty
Term
Track of land that vassal received
Definition
Fief
Term
Land for which could only be used by the lord himself
Definition
Demense
Term
If you couldn't or didn't want to go to wary would could pay a shield tax called
Definition
Scutage
Term
First born son gets all the land
Definition
Primogeniture
Term
Chivalric Code
Definition
Good, bravery, etc.
Term
Crop-lien
Definition
If peasants/serfs could not pay, they would take crops
Term
Law for religious activities
Definition
Canon Law
Term
Not letting people preform religious activities in a land
Definition
Interdict
Term
Pope will not talk to a land
Definition
Excommunication
Term
Thinks the pope shouldn't have so much power
Definition
Ottonians (Otto I)
Term
Where Henry IV tried to get the pope to unexcommunicate him
Definition
Canossa
Term
Wants to become friends with the pope, drowned
Definition
Barbarossa
Term
Knights are supposed to fight with bravery and protect their master
Definition
Chivalric code
Term
Mock battles to train the knights
Definition
Tournaments
Term
Provided safety, fortress, home
Definition
castle
Term
Small group of performers
Definition
Troubadours/minstrel
Term
Every man wanted to be her husband
Definition
Eleanor of Aquitaine
France
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