Vocab 4 History
Middle Ages
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- Manor
- the castle and estate of a feudal lord
- Hierarchy
- a group of people organized or classified by rank and authority
- Knight
- an armed, mounted soldier of the feudal period who gives military service 2 a lord
- Infidel
- one who is an unbeliever in christianity
- Monastery
- a place in whick a community of religious people, particulary where monks live
- Guild
- an association of trades people made up of merchants crafts people or artisans particulary in middle ages
- Fief
- a large feudal estate
- Icon
- a picture or representation of a sacred christian person, itself regarded as sacred
- Excomunication
- the act that deprives someone of the membership in the church
- Feudalism
- a political and economic system in which large land holders or lords gave protection to people in return or their serise to the land holders
- Serf
- a member of the lowest feudal class
- Tithe
- a tenth of one's income contributed voluntarily to a church
- Monarchy
- a strong central government ruled by a king or queen
- Literacy
- ability to read and write
- Clergy
- the group of people who have been ordained for religious service
- Vassal
- a person who recieves land and protection from a feudal lord in return 4 loyalty 2 that lord
- Schism
- a separation or division into factions
- Heretic
- a person who has controvers aial opinions especially who publicly or dissagres with the accepted beliefs of the roman catholic church
- Salvation
- the deliverance of the soul from the penalties of sin
- Patriarch
- the male leader of a family or tribe
- Homage
- an expression of public honor or respect
- Individualism
- personal independence; the idea that every person should be free 2 devolp and pursue his or her own goals
- Crusade
- any of the military expiclitions undertake by european artisans from c. 1100 to c. 1400 to win the holy kind from muslims
- Oath of fealty
- a feudal oath of loyalty sworn to a lord in exchange for an award of land
- University
- an institution of higher learning w/ teaching and research facilities as well as graduate and professional schools
- Plague
- a highly infectious, usually fatal, epidemic disease