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Carolingian
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The dynasty established by Charles the Great, or Charlemagne, at the beginning of the ninth century.
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Carolingian Renaissance
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A revival of learning and scholarship centered at Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen), which was sponsored by Carolingian monarchs.
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Cluniac Movement
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A ninth-century church reform movement centered at Cluny, France; it stressed the need for the church to be independent of temporal rulers.
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Corpus Juris Civilis
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Also known as the Code of Justinian, this assembly of law was developed under the direction of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I during the sixth century.
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Feudalism
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The decentralized political system of personal ties and obligation that bound vassals to their lords.
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Great Schism
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A disruption within Christianity that had its origins in a dispute over differing interpretations of the Nicene Creed; in 1054 the Orthodox patriarch and the pope formalized the split between the Roman and Eastern churches by excommunicating one another.
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Koran
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The holy book of Islam that consists of the teachings of Mohammed.
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Magna Carta
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An English nedieval document (1215) that forced King John to recognize the ancient rights of the nobility; it established the principle of a limited English monarch.
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Manorialism
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The economic system in which nobles who were granted large estates by the kings strove for self-sufficiency.
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Merovingian
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The Frankish dynasty established by Clovis in A.D. 481.
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Reconquista
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The process (1085-1492) of reducing Muslim control of Spain by the efforts of the Spanish Chistian nobility.
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Scholaticism
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An effort to reconcile reason and faith and to instruct Christians on how to make sense of the pagan tradition.
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Serfs
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Peasants (also called villeins) who were bound to the lord's land.
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Vassals
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Members of the feudal nobility who held property and authority in accord with the king.
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