Unit 5 Vocab
Unit 5 Vocabulary Lord Fief Excommunication Charlemagne Pope Gregory VII King Henry IV Black Death Medieval Crusades Jerusalem Manor Feudalism Vassal Serf Peasant
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The time period in history between ancient and modern times This That Medieval Aristotle
A lord who was granted land in exchange for service and loyalty to a greater lord This That Serf Vassal
Refers to exclusion from the Roman Catholic Church This That Excommunication Feudalism
A lord’s estate that included one or more villages and the surrounding lands This That Fief Manor
A peasant bound to the lord’s land in Medieval Europe This That Serf Vassal
These people were powerful leaders who had land and presided over lesser peoples This That Vassals Lords
An epidemic of the bubonic plague that ravaged Europe in the 1300s and kills s many as 25 million people This That Black Death Excommunication
A holy city for Christians, Jews, and Muslims; the sight of the First Crusade This That Jerusalem Mecca
Holy Roman Emperor from Germany who wanted the right to grant people with offices in the Catholic Church This That Henry IV Gregory VII
An estate (piece of land) granted by a lord to a vassal in exchange for service and loyalty This That Fief Serf
A series of wars from the 1000s through the 1200s in which European Christians tried to win control of the Holy Land from Muslims This That Crusades Black Death
Strives to create a united Christian Europe; is crowned Holy Roman Emperor on Christmas Day in 800 AD This That Henry IV Charlemagne
Those people that worked on a lord’s manor farming the land in exchange for guaranteed food, housing, and land This That Peasants Fiefs
Loosely organized system of government in which local lords governed their own lands but owed military service and other support to a greater lord This That Feudalism Medieval
Leader of the Catholic Church in the 11th Century that insisted the Church should be the only force choosing Church officials This That Gregory VII Charlemagne