1. Medieval Europe Focus Vocabulary
7th Grade World History

3. Middle Ages
A thousand-year period that followed the fall of Rome

4. Charlemagne (Charles the Great)
A Frankish king, crowned by Pope Leo III, who built a great empire in western Europe

5. Feudalism
A system of local rule based on agreements between lords and vassals.

6. Monarchy
The ruling class, such as the king or queen

7. Fief
Land granted by a lord to a vassal in exchange for loyalty and service

8. Manor
A main part of a noble’s land

9. Serf
Unfree peasant who is “tied to the land”

10. Knight
A vassal in Medieval Europe who gave his loyalty to his lord in return for land.

11. Chivalry
The knights’ code of honor

12. Common Law
A law that is developed through the court system and is based on a previous case

13. Magna Carta
A document that King John was forced to sign in that limited the power of the monarchy

14. The English Parliament under King Edward I.
Model Parliament of 1295

15. Bubonic Plague (Black Death)
Infectious disease that struck Eurasia in the mid-1300s killing 1/3 of Europe’s population.
Bubonic Plague (Black Death)

16. A series of wars fought between England and France from 1337 to 1453.
Hundred Years’ War