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23 Cards in this Set
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Middle Ages
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The years between ancient and modern times.
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Knight
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A man who recived honor and land in exchange for serving a lord as a soldier.
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Medival
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Referring to the middle ages
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Feudalism
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A system in which land was owned by kings or lords but held by vassals in return for their loyalty.
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Manor
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A large estate, often including farms and a village, ruled by a lord.
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Serf
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A farm worker considered part of the manor on which he worked.
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Clergy
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A persons with authority to perform religious services.
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Guild
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A medieval organization of crafts workers or tradespeople
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Apprentice
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An unpaid person training in a craft or trade.
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Chivalry
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The code of honorable conduct for knights
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Excommunication
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Expelling someone from the church.
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Guild
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A medieval organization of crafts workers and tradespeople.
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Apprentice
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An unpaid person training in a craft or trade.
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Chivalry
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The code of honorable conduct for knights.
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Troubadour
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A traveling poet or musician in the middle ages.
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Holy Land
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Jerusalem and parts of the surrounding area where Jesus lived and taught.
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Crusades
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A series of military expeditions launched by Christian Europeans to win the Holy Land back from Muslim control.
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Jerusalem
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A city in the Holy Land, regaurded as sacred by Christians, Muslims and Jews.
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Pilgrim
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A person who journeys to a sacred place.
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Magna Carta
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The "Great Charter," in which the kings power over his nobles his nobles were limited, agreed to by King John of England in 1215.
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Model Parliament
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In a council of lords, clergy, and common people that advised the English King on goverment matters.
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Hundred years' war
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A series of conflicts between England and France, 1337 to 1453
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Nation
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A community of people that shares territory and a goverment.
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