Social Studies lesson 2
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- Guild
- a formal association of people with similar interests
- Fief
- a piece of land held under the feudal system
- Middle Ages
- the period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance
- Magna Carta
- the royal charter of political rights given to rebellious English barons by King John in 1215
- Aachen
- a city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders
- Lord
- master of the manor
- King John I
- King of England from AD 1199 to 1216; in 1215, he signed the Magna Carta, giving more right to British nobles.
- England
- a division of the United Kingdom
- Normandy
- a former province of northwestern France on the English channel
- Serf
- (Middle Ages) a person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord
- William the Conqueror
- duke of Normandy who led the Norman invasion of England and became the first Norman to be King of England
- Vassal
- a person holding a fief
- Feudalism
- the social system that developed in Europe in the 8th C
- Knight
- originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry
- Charlemagne
- king of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor
- Manor
- the mansion of the lord of the manor