History Vocab-WITH PEOPLE
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- oath of fealty
- the vassal's promise to stay loyal to the lord,and to give the lord knights for war
- homage
- honor that vassals paid to their lords
- The Great Domesday Book
- a valuable sorce of information for the king's tax agents about the land.
- Middle Ages
- after the fall of Rome. From 470-1450
- monastaries
- religious communities.
- vassals
- subjects to the king who recieved fiefs
- the Magna Carta
- a piece of writing that King John signed that said everyone had to follow rules. It acknoledged the rights of the lords and prevented a king from taking those rights away
- hierarchies
- orders of rank and authority within different classes of people or organizations
- King John
- a horrible king who lost wars and made the tax level higher
- William the Conqurer
- descendant of the Vikings. used feaudalism
- Charles Martel
- defeated muslim invadors in 732. Europe was firmly Christian
- clergy
- lived the most comfortable life: pope, archbishops, monks, nuns
- Alcuin
- a monk who was a great scholar
- guild
- a uniion of people who practiced a trade such as bakers, shoemakers, etc.
- Charles (a.k.a. Charlemagne)
- Pepin's son. had 48 years of rule, 60 campaigns, helped Pope Leo the 3rd in 800. became emporer on Christmas Day
- Clovis
- 15 year old who was king of the Franks
- fiefs
- large estates give to warriors who served the king
- Pepin
- Charles Martel's son. first king to have the pope's blessing
- feudalism
- a social and political arrangement tha lasted until 1200
- Rabbi Shlomo (a.k.a. Rashi)
- wrote about the Torah and Talmud
- manor
- the castle and the entire estate
- the social order
- kings, lords, vassals, knights, peasants, serfs