Monastery

Religious community where Catholic monks lived, devoted to Christianity. (Convents were for nuns, who were women.)

Hierarchy 

Orders of rank and authority within different classes of people or organizations.

Large estates given to warriors who served the lord.

A person who receives land and protection from a feudal lord in return for loyalty to that lord.

The promise of a vassal to remain loyal to his lord.

A political and economic system in which large landholders or lords gave protection to people in return for their service to the landholder. The Roman Catholic Church was powerful. Also called Medieval times or the Dark Ages.

Armed, mounted soldier of the feudal period who gives military sevice to a lord.

Upper class land owner who often lved in a castle. He directed the knights and provided for the needs of the peasants who worked for him.*

A member of the lowest feudal clas, bound to the land and whoever owned the land.

Greco-Roman

Year: 600 BC-500 AD, Other Name: Classical Age, Center of Life: Human beings, Summary: Greeks and then Romans were the strongest civilization in the west.

Year: 400 AD- 1400 AD, Other Names: Middle Ages and Dark Ages, Center of Life: Roman Catholic Church, Summary: Feudal system; new learning not encouraged; Catholic church set the rules.

Renaissance

Year: 1350 AD- 1700 AD, Other Names: Time of Rebirth, Center of Life: Both man and God; best of both worlds, Summary: Nations developed; middle class started; towns grew strong; learning was encouraged; exploration of the world and ideas.

A highly infectious, usually fatal, epidemic disease.

A cure.

An orange stuck with cloves; thought to be a cure for the plague.

A strong central government ruled by a king or queen.

A person who has controversial opinions, especially one who publicly disagrees with the accepted beliefs of the RomanCatholic Church.

A long handgun*.

Denying other people their right to justice, property or life because of what they believe or who they are*.

Personal indipendence; theidea that every person should be free to develop and pusue his or her own goals.

Superstitious

Beliefs or practices that come from ignorance, fear of the unknown, or trust in magic or chance*.

People or things that are falsely blamed*.

Trade, or  the buying and selling of goods, on a large scale.

A person ordained for religious service.

A public showing of honor and respect to a feudal lord by a vassal.

Castle and all estate of a feudal lord.

Guild

Union of people practicing a trad like the blacksmith or jeweler (set rules, prices, quality, training)