Transcript Vocabulary Review

Vocabulary Review
• Italian Monk, wrote rules for monasteries
– Benedict
• Series of rulers from a single family
– Dynasty
• The selling or buying of a position in a
Christian church
– Simony
• Concerned with worldly rather than spiritual
matters.
– Secular
• A person who controlled land and could
therefore grant estates to vassals.
– Lord
• Ruled the Frankish kingdom, strengthened
Frankish rule, built empire
– Charlemagne
• A medieval merchant-class town dweller
– Burghers
• Muslim leader that took Jerusalem during the
2nd Crusade
– Saladin
• German King who named his lands Holy
Roman Empire
– Frederick I
• A lord’s estate in feudal Europe
– Manor
• A person who received a grant of land from a
lord in exchange for a pledge of loyalty and
services.
– Vassal
• Pope who issued the Crusades
– Urban II
• A compromise between representatives of the
Church and the emperor
– Concordat of Worms
• A family’s payment of one-tenth of its income
to a church
– Tithe
• A code of behavior for knights in medieval
Europe, stressing ideals such as courage,
loyalty, and devotion
– Chivalry
• English King who went to fight in 3rd Crusade,
led it
– Richard the Lion Hearted
• A body of officials who perform religious
services
– Clergy
• A system of farming developed in medieval
Europe, in which farmland was divided into
three fields of equal size and each of these
was successively planted with a winter crop,
planted with a spring crop, and left unplanted.
– Three field system
• An estate granted to a vassal by a lord under
the feudal system in medieval Europe
– Fief
• The everyday language of people in a region
or country
– Vernacular
• Duke of Normandy, fight for England
– William the Conqueror
• One of the Christian ceremonies in which
God’s grace is transmitted to people
– Sacraments
• Middle Ages, from 500-1500
– Medieval
• Anglo-Saxon King 871-899, turned back
Vikings
– Alfred the Great
• William the Conqueror’s rival, fight for
England
– Harold Godwinson
• A body of laws governing the religious
practices of a Christian Church
– Canon law
• Style of architecture featuring ribbed vaults,
stained glass window, flying buttresses,
pointed arches, and tall spires
– Gothic
• English King who added lands by marrying
Eleanor of Aquitaine
– Henry II
• Mayor of the Franks 719, more power than
the king, extended Frank’s reign
– Charles Martel
• A unified body of law formed from rulings of
England’s royal judges that serve as the basis
for law in many English-speaking countries
today, including the United States
– Common Law
• An assembly of representatives from all three
of the estates, or social classes in France
– Estates General
• One of the expeditions in which medieval
Christian warriors sought to recover control of
the Holy Land from the Muslims
– Crusade
• “Great Charter”-a document guaranteeing
basic political rights in England, drawn up by
nobles and approved by King John
– Magna Carta
• Leader of the Franks, brought Christianity to
the region
– Clovis
• A medieval association of people working at
the same occupation, which controlled its
members’ wages and prices
– Guild
• A body of representatives that makes laws for
a nation
– Parliament
• A deadly disease that spread across Asia and
Europe in the mid-14th century, killing millions
of people
– Bubonic Plague
• The appointment of religious officials by kings
or nobles
– Lay investiture