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Social Studies
8th Grade
11/23/2015

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danegeld
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tax raised to pay tribute to the viking raiders for a land to be ravaged
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monastery
Definition
a large building were men live simple lives devoted to god
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who was charlemange
Definition

king of the franks

devoted to christianity

united most of western europe through conquest

name meant charles the great, son of pepin the short

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trial by ordeal
Definition
doing something that could really hurt you, if it doesnt hurt you god thinks you are innocent and if you do get hurt god thinks you are not innocent
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trial by battle
Definition
people battle to decide whos innocent by waring, whoever is innocent would win and whoever didnt win was not innocent
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trial by oath
Definition
you have to swear on your oath, then the wittnesses testify and become to the decision to the person beig innocent or guilty
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what kind of crimes were thought of as serious crimes in the middle ages
Definition

crimes such as murder, rape, treason and burgulary

as well as cutting trees in the royal forests, or collecting fire wood was considered a serious crime

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what is common law
Definition
law developed by judges, courts, and similar tribuhals
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what is the religion of islam and how does it relate to judasim and christianity
Definition
believing in one god, allah, who is the same as the one god of christians and jews. believe in profits. all have holy books all have a decloration of laws, all pray 5 times a day
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what is a crusade
Definition
a war carried out with the popes direction ( an aggresive movement for the defence ar advancement of an idea )
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what were the other reasons for europeans to launch a crusade
Definition
spiritual incentatives to retake holy land for christianity, sins forgiven if you die on a crusade you go straight to heaven. unitify the church bring the orthodox church and the catholic church back together. they faught for personal glory, land for landless knights and for plunder.
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who is william the conquerer
Definition
duke of normandy, descendent of viking raiders
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harold godwinson
Definition
an english earl/nobel ship wrecked on the coast of normandy, befriended by william
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serf
Definition
an agricultural laborer bound under under the feudal system to work on his/her lords estate
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vassals
Definition
gets a tract of land, in exchange all the food goes to nobles which goes to the monarch
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magna carta
Definition
a charter of liberties to which the english barons forced king john to give his assent in june 1215 at runnymede. 2
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battle of hastings
Definition
the decisive battle in which william the conquerer defeated the saxons under harold II (1066) and thus england opened for the norman conquest
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passover
Definition

a major jewish spring festival that commemorates the liberation of the isrealities from egyptian slavery, lasting seven or eight days from the 15th day of nisan.

they would smear lambs blood ont their mail boxes to signal the angle to pass by

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islam
Definition
the religion of the muslims, a monotheistic faith regarded as revealed through muhanmmad as the prphet of allah
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pope
Definition
the bishop of rome as head of the roman catholic church
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aqueduct
Definition
an artificial channel for conveying water, typically in the form of a bridge supported by tall collums across a valley
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vikings
Definition
any of the scandinavian seafaring pirates and traders who raided and settled in many parts of northwestern europe in the 8th-11th centuries
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three field system
Definition
Under this system, the arable land of an estate or village was divided into three large fields: one was planted in the autumn with winter wheat or rye; the second field was planted with other crops such as peas, lentils, or beans; and the third was left fallow, in order to allow the soil of that field to regain its life
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normans
Definition

 

a member of a people of mixed Frankish and Scandinavian origin who settled in Normandy from about AD 912 and became a dominant military power in western Europe and the Mediterranean in the 11th century.

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messiah
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the promised deliverer of the Jewish nation prophesied in the Hebrew Bible.

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the difference between the manor court and the royal court crimes
Definition
manor courts
farming and propeties
manor courts were more like village meetings
royal courts
took care of serious crimes, such as, murder, treason, rape, burgulary.
cutting down trees from the royal forests
collecting dead wood for fuel from the royal forest
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