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35 Cards in this Set
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Serfdom
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Workers attached to the soil
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Chivalry
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Knightly code of conduct, killing for honor, how to treat noble ladies
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Fief
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Land given to vassals by king
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Crusades
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Armed marches to recapture the holy land from Muslims
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Excommunication
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Being kicked out of the catholic church by pope or other catholic authority
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Charlemagne
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French king, conquered Europe, Holy Roman Emperor
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Vassals
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Anyone in the chain of feudal command (lords/knights)
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Truce of God
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Days you could fight
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Donation of Constantine
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Forged document stating Constantine gave all of Europe to the catholic church
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Knighthood
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Man of arms on horseback, evolved into minor lord title
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Tournament
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Training for knights, mock battle competitions for money
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Interdict
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When a country is cut off from church services
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Town Air Brings Freedom
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If a serf escapes to a village for a year and a day, they are are no longer bound to their land
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Wick and Bailey
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Early wooden castles
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Hunting and Hawking
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Hunting with dogs and hawks
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Jousting
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Mock battles on horses with wooden lances
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Scutage
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Shield tax - Tax paid by nobles to buy out of a king's fight
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Courtly Love
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Falling in love with your "ideal woman" regardless of either party's relationship status
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Inquisition
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Hunting of heretics after Albigensian Crusade
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Francis of Assisi
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Franciscan Order (OFM), crazy guy who gave his clothes to the homeless, preached to pigs
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Eleanor of Aquitaine
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William II's wife, gives William all of southern France
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William The Bastard/Conquerer
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Normand prince, conquers all of England, brings in French culture
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Robert Guiscard
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Normand, moves to southern Italy, becomes Duke of Melfi
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Urban II
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Pope who preaches first crusade
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Saladin
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Muslim leader, reconquers most of holy land after 2nd crusade, keeps Jerusalem even after 3rd crusage
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Innocent III
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Pope during height of Medieval Papacy, 4th Crusade
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Normans
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Vikings who inherited small portion of France
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Albigensians
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Good god/bad god (NT/OT), mendicant order, heretics
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St Louis IX of France
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King of France, dies crusading in Africa
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Dominicans
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Mendicant order, leaders of inquisition, St Dominic
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Franciscans
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Mendicant order, St Francis
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Mendicant
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Begging, traveling, preaching order of christians
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Clunys
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Try to bring back strict Benedictine practices within abbots
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Cistercians
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Try to out-jesus clunys
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Carthusians
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Try to out-jesus Cistercians
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