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Dark Ages 1
World History
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History
9th Grade
11/26/2012

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Code of Chivalry
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Rules that Knights had love by; serve lord on earth, heavenly father, chosen lady. Take care of weak and poor.
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Charlemagne
Definition
Charles the Great became Holy Roman Emperor who worked to bring political order to northwestern fringles of the Roman Empire
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King Authur
Definition
legendary leader of Britian in the Middle Ages inspired epic poems and stories
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Fief
Definition
A piece of land held under the feudal system
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Monastery
Definition
a place for religious people to live and study
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Excommunication
Definition

The act of  banishing a member of the Church from the communion of believers and the privleges of the Church; cutting a person off from a religious society

 

 

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Germanic Tribes
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Barabarians that attacked the roman empire

 

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Holy Roman Empire
Definition
a political and religious unutung of Europe that began in 800AD
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Clovis
Definition
King of the Franks who unified Gaul and established his capital at Paris and founded the Frankish monarchy; his name was rendered as Gallic 'Louis
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Vassal
Definition
Less powerful nobe who promised to fight for a lord in excharge for a piece of land from the lord's fief
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Tournaments
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A series of jousts between knights contesting for a prize
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Serf
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a person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord
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Pope
Definition
the head of the Roman Catholic Church
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Canon Law
Definition
laws under the authority of the church
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Missonnary
Definition
Someone sent to a mission--espeacially a religious or charitable mission to a foreign country
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Tithes
Definition
percentage of earnings, wealth, or belonging paid to the church,king, or landowner. Similar to taxes
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Dark Ages
Definition
Time with little change in culture and a lack of structure of civilization
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