Shared Flashcard Set

Details

dark ages
vocab for the dark ages
20
History
9th Grade
12/02/2013

Additional History Flashcards

 


 

Cards

Term
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 Loouis
Term
germanic tribes
Definition
barbarians that attacked the oman empire
Term
vassal
Definition
less powerful nobel whho promises to fight for lord in exchane for a piece of land from the lord fief
Term
charlemenge
Definition
charles the great became a holy roman emporerwho worked to bring political order
to Northwestern fringes of the roman empire
Term
dark ages
Definition
time with little change in culture and lack of structure to civilization
Term
tithes
Definition
percentage of earnings wealth or belongings paid to the church king or landowner similar to taxes
Term
fuedalism
Definition
thesocial system that developed in europ in the 8th c vassals were protected by the lords who they had to serve in war
Term
missionary
Definition
someone sent on a mission especially a relegious or charitable mission to a foreign country
Term
canon law
Definition
laws under the authority of the church
Term
holy roman empire
Definition
a political and religious uniting of europe began in 800 bc
Term
tournaments
Definition
a series of joust between knights contesting for a prize
Term
king authur
Definition
legendry leader of britian in the middle ages inspired epic poems and stories
Term
monestary
Definition
a place for religious people to live and study
Term
three field system
Definition
way of faarming where farmers allowed one feiled to be unussed and rotataed
Term
excommunication
Definition
the act of banishing a member of the church from the communication of belivers and the privilages of the chuurch cutting off a person fofrm the religios society
Term
code of chivary
Definition
rules that knightshad to live by serve lord on earth and the heavenly father chosen lady take care of the weak and poor
Term
serf
Definition
a person who is bound to the land owned by the feudal lord
Term
pope
Definition
the head of the roman catholic church
Term
feif
Definition
a peicce of land held by the fuedal system
Term
illuminations
Definition
in the 600s and 700s monks made beautiful writings theswe images preserved at least a part of romw intelectual her8itage
Supporting users have an ad free experience!